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CHICAGO  TRIBUNE  CAMPAIGN  DOCUMENT,  Nc.  1. 

Coptiught  Secured. 


Spirit  of  the  Chicago  Convention. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  ALL  THE  NOTABLE  SPEECHES  DELIVERED  IN  AND  OUT 
OF  THE  NATIONAL  “  DEMOCRATIC  ”  CONVENTION. 

A  Surrender  to  the  Rebels  Advocated  —  A  Disgraceful  and 
Pusillasiimous  Peace  Demanded— The  Federal  Government 
Savagely  Denounced  and  Shamefully  Vilified,  and  not  a 
word  said  against  Hie  Crime  of  Treason  and  Rebellion. 


This  pamphlet  contains  the  spirit  of  the  Chicago  “  Democratic ” 'Convention.  If  it 
contains  no  statements  that  if  the  proposed  “Armistice  and  National  Convention”  expe¬ 
dients  should  fail,  the  democratic  party  would  put  down  the  rebellion,  it  is  because,  from 
first  to  last,  no  such  statements  were  made.  They  would  have  been  firebrands  in  the 
camp,  and  if  uttered  in  the  Convention,  would  have  exploded  the  “democracy”  into  two 
conflicting  factions.  They  uttered  no  word  of  approval  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  or  disap¬ 
proval  of  Jefferson  Davis.  The  blood  and  crimes,  the  hardships  and  deprivations,  the 
infringements  on  personal  liberty  which  we  all  endure,  were  not,  during  the  entire  sitting 
of  the  Convention,  once  charged  to  the  rebellion  or  its  leaders,  but  were  by  every  speaker 
charged  wholly,  fiercely  and  relentlessly  to  the  President  of  the  United  States,  his  officers 
and  armies.  Had  the  Convention  been  held  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  not  a  word  need  have 
been  expunged. 

Further,  the  general  spirit  and  tone  of  the  Convention,  so  far  from  looking  to  a  sup¬ 
pression  of  the  present  rebellion,  wras  in  favor  of  a  new  rebellion  against  the  Government 
in  the  imagined  contingency  of  “interference  with  the  freedom  of  the  ballot,”  at  the 
coming  election.  Very  few  of  the  speakers  closed  without  an  exhortation  to  prepare  for 
a  fight  this  fall.  As  nothing  had  occurred  to  indicate  such  an  interference,  and  as  it  is  in 
the  power  of  those  who  met  in  this  Convention  to  compel  the  Government  to  put  forth 
ks  armed  force,  by  themselves  inciting  disturbance,  it  is  to  be  presumed,  that  as  in  the 
case  of  the  rebel  prophecies  of  disunion  four  years  ago,  so  now,  what  these  prophets  so 
unanimously  foresee  they  have  determined  to  bring  to  pass.  Such  a  rebellion  would  re¬ 
unite  them  for  the  time  in  aim  and  purpose  with  their  ancient  party  allies,  Jefferson  Davis 
and  the  Southern  rebels.  It  would  remove  the  seat  of  war  from  Atlanta,  Mobile  and 
Richmond,  to  Chicago,  New  York  and  Boston.  It  would  set  the  people  of  the  Northern 
Stat-  s  to  cutting  each  other's  throats,  to  send  August  Belmont’s  Confederate  stock  up  to 
par,  and  to  establish’ the  independence  of  the  Rebellion. 

Such  was  the  tone  and  spirit  of  this  so-called  “Peace  Convention”  Vallandigham, 
the  forerunner  in  the  crime  of  Northern  Rebellion,  was  the  demi-god  of  the  occasion.  It 
was  the  tone  and  spirit  of  the  New  York  anti-draft  riots,  where  there  was  prodigious  cheer¬ 
ing  for  McClellan — so  here — and  from  the  same  class,  imported  in  large  numbers,  for  the 
occasion.  They  were  not  the  peaceful  citizens  of  this  nation — not  the  class  from  which  a 
genuine  cry  for  peace  would  ever  come.  They  were  for  peace  with  the  rebels  only  because 
thev  were  for  the  rebels,  for  the  slavery  in  behalf  of  which  they  rebelled,  for  the  seces- 
siouism  of  Calhoun  which  led  them  into  the  rebellion,  and  for  that  gilded  shim  of  this 
day — the  name  Democracy,  which  has  thus  far  helped  the  rebellion  on  its  wav.  Sympa¬ 
thizing  thus  with  the  rebels,  they  demanded  peace  as  a  service  to  their  friends — peace 
with  the  country’s  enemies,  and  war  against  its  defenders.  In  one  breath  they  chaunted 
the  evils  of  our  present  war,  and  in  the  next  threatened  a  new  rebellion.  One  moment 
they  talked  dolorously  of  the  wounded  and  dying,  and  the  next,  threatened  a  free  fight 
against  us  in  our  own  streets,  which  would  fill  every  American  heart  with  shame  and  dye 
every  American  threshold  with  blood.  They  have  done  the  rebels  good  service.  Had 
they  met,  and  on  behalf  of  the  democracy  of  the  North,  authoritatively  informed  the 
country  that  the  seceders  must  submit  to  the  Government  or  be  crushed,  the  rebels  would 
have  been  more  discouraged  and  their  return  to  the  Union  more  hastened,  than  by  the 
most  sanguinary  defeat  on  the  battle-field.  As  it  is,  the  emissaries  of  the  rebellion  in  Can¬ 
ada  telegraph,  “ Platform  and  Vice  President  satisfactory — Speeches  vert  satisfactory.” 

Republicans  and  Democrats  who  are  not  yet  willing  to  surrender  the  Union,  or  to 
bring  about  another  rebellion  at  the  No:th  to  complicate  a  thousand  fold  the  settlement 
of  our  present  difficulties,  are  these  men  whose  speeches  are  so  very  satisfactory  to  the 
rebels,  worthy  to  be  entrusted  with  the  destinies  of  the  country  ? 

That  there  might  be  no  dispute  about  the  correctness  of  the  extracts  of  speeches 
in  the  following  pages,  they  were  all  copied  from  the  columns  of  the  Cbicag*  Times , 
except  a  few  passages  taken  from  the  Chicago  Tribune's  reports,  which  are  credited  to  it. 


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The  Chicago  Times,  of  Aug.  25bh,  stated 
tile:  object  of  those  attending  the  Conven¬ 
tion  to  be,  to  make  it 

“The  occasion  of  a  demonstration  of  democratic 
power  and  earnestness  which  will  strike  terror  to  the 
hearts  of  our  enemies.” 

We  also  learn  from  the  same  paper  that 

“  The  most  distinguished  democrats  of  the  nation 
will  address  the  people,  and  open  the  campaign  in  the 
democratic  city  of  the  West.” 

THE  CLAMOR  FOR  A  DISUNION  PEACE. 

The  general  tone  and  sentiment  of  the 
twenty  or  thirty  thousand  democrats 
gathered  from  all  parts  of  the  Union,  are 
thus  described  in  the  Chicago  Times  — 
McClbllau  Pendleton  Peace  organ. ' 

In  front  of  the  Court  House,  upon  every  street 
and  alley  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Sherman  and  Tremont 
Houses,  were  assembled  vast  crowds  of  people — 
listening  intently  to  the  earnest  oratory  of  speakers 
whose  manner  and  delivery  showed  that  their  denun¬ 
ciations  of  the  Administration — though  they  might 
be  at  times  unpolished — in  every  instance  proceeded 
directly  from  the  heart.  Peace  was  the  cry  of 
every  man,  woman  and  child,  to  be  encountered  on 
the  streets.  Peace  was  the  watchword  of  every 
orator,  and  the  responses  of  the  immense  crowd 
who  listened,  proved  that  the  one  predominant  feel¬ 
ing  in  every  heart  was  a  desire  for  peace. 

yallanuioham’s  first  speech. 

The  Chicago  Times ,  of  Aug  27th?  in  its 
prelude  to  Yallandigham’s  speech,  alluding 
to  the  crowd  gathered  in  the  Court  House 
Square,  says : 

“  No  wonder,  then,  that  thousands  of  people  were 
anxious,  in  the  midst  of  the  great  crisis  that  is  now 
passing,  to  hear  the  sound  truths  and  immaculate 
teachings  of  the  old  democracy.” 

Vallandighaw  said: 

“  There  are  two  principal  forms  of  government  in 
the  world.  Governments  founded  on  the  idea  of  co¬ 
ercion,  and  governments  founded  on  consent.  The 
Declaration  of  Independence  to  which  we  owe  our 
national  existence — the  charter  in  which  is  laid  down 
the  principles  on  which  our  government  is  founded — 
declares  that  all  just  governments  rest  on  the  consent 
o:  the  governed.  Other  governments,  in  other  ages 
aa'l  in  other  countries,  have  been  founded  on  the 
idea  of  coercion,  and  look  to  bayonets,  cannon,  the 
sword,  to  enforce  the  edicts  of  the  rulers  as  against 
the  people,  to  maintain  themselves  against  the  wishes 
and  sentiments  of  the  people  who  are  called  their 
subjects.  Governments  founded  on  consent,  on  the 
other  hand,  rely  on  the  instrumentalities  of  freedom, 
free  speech,  free  press,  free  assemblages  of  the  peo¬ 
ple,  a  free  ballot  box  under  which  executive  officers 
and  legislators  are  elected  to  make  laws  and  execute 
the  laws  so  made,  and  those  only. 

“  Such  governments  repudiate  the  idea  of  coercion 
and  arms,  relying  only  on  the, coercion  of  law  and  of 
public  opinion.  This  is  the  only  coercion  rightfully 
to  be  exercised  in  a  government  founded  like  ours  on 
the  consent  of  the  governed.” 

Yallandigham  here  propounds  the  Four- 
ierite  and  Utopian  idOa  of  a  government 
based  on  moral  suasion  without  the  use  of 
force.  Because  our  government  is  founded 
on  the  consent  of  the  governed,  he  infers 
that  it  must  govern  only  with  the  consent 
of  the  disobedient.  But  while  our  written 


constitutions  and  our  universal  suffrage  and 
fiee  elections  attest  that  our  government 
derives  all  its  powers  from  the  consent  of 
the  governed,  our  penal  laws,  criminal 
courts,  jails,  penitentiaries,  prisons  and  gal¬ 
lows  equally  show  that  one  of  the  very 
powers which  the  government  derives  from 
the  consent  of  the  governed,  is  the  power 
to  coerce  the  disobedient  and  rebellious. 

wentwortu’s  reply  to  vallandigham. 

Hon.  John  Wentworth,  widely  known  as 
an  olden-time  Democrat  of  the  days  of 
Jackson,  now  a  supporter  of  the  Adminis¬ 
tration,  at  the  close  of  Yallandigham’s 
speech,  addressed  the  following  triumphant 
refutation  of  his  heresies  to  the  same  audi¬ 
ence.  We  quote  from  the  Tribune  report: 

“  But  Vallandigham  toll  you  that  the  Government 
could  never  be  held  together  by  coercive  force,  that 
power  brought  to  apply  on  the  unculy  could  never 
reduce  them  to  obedience.  Was  there  ever  a  greater 
heresy  uttered  by  the  mouth  of  man  !  No  coercion  ! 
Why,  gentlemen,  the  coercive  power  of  Government 
is  the  only  safety  and  salvation  of  society.  No  gov¬ 
ernment.,  no  community  can  exist  an  hour  without  it. 
It  was  the  weakness  of  the  Articles  of  the  old  Confed¬ 
eration  that  they  conferred  no  coercive  power,  and 
the  statesmen  of  that  day  saw  the  pressing  necessity 
of  the  new  Constitution.  Take  to-day  from  munici¬ 
pal  and  governmental  organization  the  power  of  coer¬ 
cion  and  society  goes  at  once  into  anarchy  and  chaos. 
The  weak  would  become  the  immediate  prey  of  the 
strong,  and  might  would  indeed  become  right.  I 
have  been  told  that  there  are  those  who  would  disturb 
the  quiet  of  the  gathering  in  this  city.  We,  the  au¬ 
thorities  of  the  city,  coerce  them  into  respect  for  law. 
Surely  you  should  not  denounce  coercion.  That  glo¬ 
rious  old  war-horse  of  Democracy,  General  Jackson, 
from  whose  lips  I  inhaled  the  pure  inspiration  of  De¬ 
mocracy,  and  at  whose  feet  I  received  the  first  les¬ 
sons  of  political  and  governmental  duty,  was  glo¬ 
riously  free  from  this  modern  heresy.  His  celebrated 
proclamation  against  the  nullifiers,  in  wh.ch  ‘coer¬ 
cion’  gleamed  and  glistened  in  every  line,  will  give 
him  a  name  and  an  immortality  in  history,  when  the 
maligners  and  denunciators  of  his  policy  shall  have 
been  forgotten.  I  therefore  stand  for  General  Jack- 
son  and  against  Vallandigham.  Will  you  stand  for 
Vallandigham  and  against  General  Jackson?  ” 

Compare  Vallandigbam’s  language  with 
Art.  1,  Sec.  8,  of  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States,  authorizing  the  Government 
“to  raise  and  support  armies,”  and  “to 
provide  for  calling  forth  the  militia  to  exe¬ 
cute  the  laws  of  the  Union,  suppress  in¬ 
surrections  and  repel  invasions.”  Would 
he  suppress  a  rebellion  by  an  opinion? 

Yailandigham  continues  — 

“Much  more  is  this  true  of  a  federative  system. 
States  leagued  and  united  together  to  make  one  com¬ 
mon  government  made  by  independent  sovereignties 
who  have  delegated  certain  portions  of  their  power 
to  their  common  agent  for  the  purpose  of  their  com¬ 
mon  good.  For  three-fourths  of  a  century  such  a 
government  existed  in  the  United  States  and  still 
survives  on  parchment,  but  not  in  reality.  Three 
years  ago  a  party  whose  distinctive  motto  was  free 
speech,  a  free  press  and  free  men,  obtained  power  in 
this  land.  Soon  after  a  civil  war  broke  out  and  they 
began  immediately  to  depart  from  the  idea  of  a  coer¬ 
cion  of  opinion  or  coercion  of  law,  and  resorted  to  a 
coercion  of  force ;  first,  as  against  States,  contrary 
to  the  very  idea  upon  which  our  Federal  Union  was 
founded,’ and  in  derogation  of  the  fundamental  prin- 


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ciples  of  all  free  government.  Next —  and  naturally 
a3  a  legitimate  consequence  of  the  first  violation  — 
those  who  Obtained  power  through  your  suffrages  be¬ 
gan  the  coercion  of  force  against  those  who  still  ad¬ 
hered  to  the  government  and  recognized  them  as 
agents  of  it.” 

Yallandigham  here  says  the  war  broke 
out  after  Mr.  Lincoln  obtained  power. 
Compare  with  this  the  following  statement 
from  the  Southern  history  of  the  war  writ¬ 
ten  by  Pollard,  editor  of  the  Richmond 
Examiner,  a  good  “democratic”  authority: 

“  On  the  incoming  of  the  administration  of  Abra¬ 
ham  Lincoln  on  the  4th  of  March,  the  rival  Govern¬ 
ment  of  the  South  had  perfected  its  organization; 
Fort  Moultrie  and  Castle  Tinckney  had  been  cap¬ 
tured  by  the  South  Carolina  troops ;  Fort  Pulaski, 
the  defense  of  Savannah  had  been  taken;  the  arsenal 
at  Mount  Yerndrt1,  Alabama,  with  20,000  stand  >of 
arms,  had  oeen  seized  by  the  Alabama  troops;  Fort 
Morgan  in  Mobile  Pay  had  been  taken  ;  Forts  Jack- 
son,  St.  Philip  and  Pike,  New  Orleans,  had  been  cap¬ 
tured  by  the  Louisiana  troops;  the  Pensacola  navy- 
yard  and  Forts  Barrancas  and  McRea  had  been 
taken,  and  the  seige  of  Fort  Pickens  commenced; 
the  Baton  Rouge  Arsenal  had  been  surrendered  to 
the  Louisiana  troops ;  the  New  Orleans  Mint  and 
Custom  house- had  been  taken  ;  the  Little  Rock  Arse¬ 
nal  had  been  seized  by  the  Arkansas  troops ;  and  on 
the  16th  of  February,  General  Twiggs  had  transferred 
the  public  property  in  Texas,  to  the  State  authori¬ 
ties.” 

Yallandigham  also  said  — 

“  In  one  hour  all  the  safeguards  of  the  Constitution 
perished,  arbitrary  arrests  commenced,  spies  became 
known  throughout  the  land,  their  fluty  being  to  watch 
the  motions  and  report  the  conversations  of  every 
one  the  administration  chose  to  suspect  of  that  new 
crime  of  “  disloyalty”  to  that  administration.  In 
all  this,  to  a  large  extent,  they  were  unhappily  sup¬ 
port  ed(  by  a  vast  majority  of  the  people,  silently  and 
by  active  participation.  The  despotism  of  party 
aided  the  despotism  of  arbitrary  power,  the  despot¬ 
ism  of  a  majority  sustained  those  who  held  the  reins 
of  government  in  trampling  for  a  time  upon  the  rights 
of  minorities.” 

One  of  the  safeguards  of  the  Constitution 
is  that  which  enables  the  President  and 
Congress,  “  when  during  rebellion  or  inva¬ 
sion,  the  public  safety  may  require  it,”  to 
suspend  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus,  and 
thus  to  make  what  Yallandigham  calls' “  ar¬ 
bitrary  arrests.”  Not  only  does  the  Con¬ 
stitution  expressly  authorize  these- .abitrary 
arrests  daring  rebellion,  by  authorizing  a 
suspension  of  the  “  habeas  corpus,”  but 
Vallandigham  admits  that  “  a  vast  majority 
of  the  people  ”  approved  of  them.  If  both 
the  Constitution  warrants,  and  tiib  majority 
approve  the  “aroitrary  arrests,”  wil}  Yallan¬ 
digham  assert  that  neither  the  Constitution 
nor  the' majority  shall  rule? 

Vallandigham  asks —  I.  ,  ; 

“  Have  yotl  been  secure  in  your  persons  and  pro¬ 
perty,  in  your  papers  and  your  houses?  Have  you 
been  free  from  arrests,  from  searches  and  from 
seizure? ”  .  '  pa  fu  ,"7 

>  -i  .;  lot  Bamn'jjJjo  bun  root!  juIbi, 

The  Constitution  does  not  proyide,}Jib,;j 
we  shall  be  absolutely  secure  from  s$ajfc]^ 
and  seizures,  but  .only  fj^om  unreasonable 
searches  ajid  seizures,  leaving  thd, executive 
department  of  the  government  full  liberty  to 
make  all  reasonable  searches  ami  seizures. 


In  the  same  speech  Yallandigham  has 
the  brazen  effrontery  to  say  : 

“  What  was  the  condition  of  the  country  in  the 
beginning  of  his  (Lincoln’s)  Administration?  Con¬ 
trast  it  with  the  condition  of  things  now.  Then  we 
had  peace,  now  cruel  war ;  then  Union  with  all  its 
blessings,  now  disunion  with  all  its  horrors;  then 
the  constitution  maintained  which  our  fathers 
pronounced,  and  we  in  our  day  and  genera¬ 
tion  too,  as  the  consummation  of  human  wisdom  ;  that 
constitution  now  lies  prostrate  under  the  heels  of 
despotic  power.” 

Yes,  “  What  was  the  condition  of  the 
country  ”  when  committed  to  the  Adminis¬ 
tration  of  Mr.  Lincoln  ?  It  was  rent  in 
twain  by  the  party  to  which  Yallandigham 
belongs. 

Mr  Lincoln  found  two  governments  in 
full  blast:  Buchanan  at  the  head  of  one  and 
Davis  at  the  head  of  the  other.  He  found 
two  con-titutions  in  force,  the  Federal  and 
Confederate.  He  found  eight  States  fully 
seceded,  three  more  almost  out,  and  two 
more  preparing  to  follow  the  eleven  elopers. 
He  found  half  the  territory  of  the  United 
States  in  the  hands  of  the  Confederates, 
with  their  Capital  established  at  Montgom¬ 
ery.  He  found  this  insurgent  Government 
busy  organizing  an  army  and  a  navy,  build¬ 
ing  forts,  drilling  troops  and  collecting 
taxes.  He  found  the  armories  and  arsenals  of 
the  Federal  Government  plundered  of  their 
contents,  and  the  treasury  robbed  of  its  last 
dollar.  When  Mr.  Lincoln  took  the  oath  of 
office,  the  “  democratic  party  ”  had  scuttled 
and  plundered  the  ship  of  State.  The  Union 
was  dissolved  as  far  as  it  was  in  the  power 
of  that  party  to  dissolve  it.  When  he 
entered  the  White  House  he  found  awaiting 
him  three  plenipotentaries  from  Jeff.  Davis 
to  negotiate  a  commercial  treaty  in  behalf 
of  the  “  Southern  Confederacy  !  ”  They  did 
not  deign  to  ask  for  recognition  of  rebel 
independence.  They  considered  that  al¬ 
ready  settled.  Such  was  the  Union  work  of 
this  “  glorious  democratic  ”  party  ;  and  now 
the  leaders  of  the  Northern  wing  ask  to  be 
restored  to  power,  in  order  that  they  may 
complete  their  scheme  of  disunion  by 
establishing  a  North-Western  Confederacy 
on  the  ruins  of  the  old  Union. 

Yallandigham,  with  sublime  impudence, 
actually  arraigns  the  President  for  not  hav¬ 
ing,  against  his  most  active  resistance,  re¬ 
stored  the  Union: 

“  I  speak  freely  of  the  President  as  one  who  asks 
me  for  my  vote,  I  tell  him  no,  yon  have  nob  dis¬ 
charged  the  duty  for  which  you  were  elected.  You 
have  not  so  administered  the  government  as  to  ad¬ 
vance  its  prosperity.  Y ou  have  not,  as  you  promised 
us,  restored  the  Union  of  these  States,  preserved  the 
constitution  given  into  your  hands  for  keeping. 
Whose  fault  is  it?” 

It  is  the  fault  of  James  Buchahan  and  the 
“democratic  party  ”  who  during  the  first 
five  months  of  the  rebellion  assisted  it  by 
every  means  in  their  power,  stripping  the 


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North  of  120,000  stand  of  arms  to  send  to 
the  rebels,  and  denying  that  the  Govern¬ 
ment  had  any  right  but  to  submit  to  be 
coerced  by  rebels  into  its  own  dissolution 
and  destruction. 

Vallandigham  wants  the  war  stopped : 

“If  you  would  have  peace,, abandon  that  idea  of 
coercion,  come  back  again  to  compromise  and  con¬ 
ciliation-;  instead  of  war  let  us  have  reason,  argu¬ 
ment,  deliberation  ;  let  us  have  the.  assemblage  of  a 
convention  of  the  States  to  consider  this  great  ques¬ 
tion.  Instead  of  the  experiment  of  war  let  us  have  the 
experiment  of  peace.  From  military  appliances  let 
us  look  to  the  arts  of  peace,  and  the  acquirements  of 
statesmanship.  Through  these  alone  will  you  reach 
the  highway  of  public  prosperity.” 

How  is  peace  to  be  secured  except  by 
conquering  the  rebellion  ?  Before  a  con¬ 
vention  there  must  be  an  armistice.  But 
Vallandigham  did  not  inform  his  audience 
how  the  armistice  is  to  be  brought  about, 
nor  how  a  convention  is  to  be  legally  con¬ 
stituted  without  the  concurrence  of  tne 
States  in  rebellion.  Does  he  propose  to 
withdraw  all  our  forces  from  the  field  now 
that,  after  a  hard  and  exhausting  campaign, 
they  stand  on  the  very  margin  of  final  suc¬ 
cess  ?  Does  he  propose  that  we  shall 
abandon  Kentucky,  "Missouri,  Tennessee, 
Northern  Arkansas,  Louisiana,  West  Vir¬ 
ginia,  Maryland,  Delaware?  Must  we  sur¬ 
render  back  to  the  hands  of  the  very  men 
from  whose  bloody  gripe  they  have  just 
been  rescued,  Vicksburg,  Port  Hudson, 
Port  Royal,  Norfolk,  Fortress  Monroe,  Forts 
St.  Philip,  Morgan,  Gaines,  Roanoke,  Don- 
elson,  Island  No.  10,  Memphis,  St.  Louis, 
Louisville,  Wheeling,  New  Orleans,  Balti: 
more,  Nashville,  Atlanta  and  Washington — 
in  short,  all  places  and  territory  south  of  Ma¬ 
son  A  Dixon’s  line  ?  Must  our  fleets  be  with¬ 
drawn  and  the  blockade  raised  in  order  that 
the  rebels  may  sell  their  cotton  and  prepare 
themselves  for  a  renewal  of  the  war  ? 

Yet  this  is  what  an  armistice  implies; 
this  is  what  the  rebel  writers  with  one 
accord  demand  ;  this  is  what  their  authori¬ 
ties  make  the  single  conditior .  Jeff.  Davis 
declared,  in  the  most  emphatic  manner,  to 
Colonel  Jaquess,  that  he  would  not  consent 
to  negotiate  until  the  independence  of  the 
Confederacy  had  been  recoguized. 

“  Say  to  Mr.  Lincoln,  from  me,  that  I  shall  at  any 
time  be  pleased  to  receive  proposals  for  peace  on  the 
basis  of  our  independence.  It  will  be  useless  to  ap¬ 
proach  me  with  any  other.” 

An  armistice,  while  it  lasts,  is,  in 
effect,  a  concession  of  rebel  independence, 
and  an  acknowledgment  that  the  Union  is 
dis  iolved. 

But  let  us  suppose  this  difficulty  sure 
mounted,  stopped, — what  sort  of  a  convert 
tion  does  Vallandigham  propose  to  hold  ? 
One  chosen  according  to  the  mode  pre¬ 
scribed  by  the  constitution,  or  by  some  oth- 
>  er  method  ? 


The  only  possible  convention  that  could 
authoi Datively  settle  any  dispute,  must  be 
assem-bled  in  the  mode  prescribed  by  the 
Constitution  itself.  Does  any  copperhead 
deny  this  ?  By  Article  V,  of  the  Constitu¬ 
tion  of  the  United  States,  it  is  provided  that: 

“  The  Congress  ....  on  application  of  the  legis¬ 
latures  of  two-thirds  of  the  several  States,  shall  call 
a  convention  for  proposing  amendments  which  .  .  . 
shall  be  valid  to  all  intents  and  purposes  as  parts  of 
this  constitution,  when  ratified  by  the  legislatures  of 
three-fourths  of  the  several  States,  or  by  conventions 
in  three-fourths  thereof,  as  the  one  or  the  other  mode 
of  ratification  may  be  proposed  by  the  Congress.” 

Congress  cannot,  it  will  be  seen,  of  it3 
own  motion,  call  a  Convention,  which  it  can 
do  only  when  moved  thereto  by  two-thirds 
of  all  the  Sta'e  legislatures;  that  is,  of  all 
the  States,  rebel  as  well  as  loyal. 

But  such  an  application  would  be  an  ac¬ 
knowledgment  by  these  States  that  they 
were  a  part  of  our  Federal  Union,  and  owed 
fealty  to  our  constitution.  Is  it  to  be  be¬ 
lieved  that  the  rebel  States  are  willing  to  do 
this?  And  if  so,  what  need  of  a  Conven¬ 
tion  ?  They  are  already  in  the  Union  by 
their  own  consent,  which  is  all  that  we  re¬ 
quire. 

FERNANDO  WOOD’S  PEACE  SPEECH. 

Fernando  Wood  insisted  on  stopping  the 
war  and  making  peace.  A  Disunion  peace, 
of  coursej;  the  rebels  will  voluntarily  make 
no  other. 

Now,  my  friends,  I  counsel  peace.  [Cheers.] 
I  counsel  peace  in  the  Democratic  party  that  we 
may  restore  old  rights  to  this  distracted  land.  We 
must  have  a  union  of  the  party  that  we  may  have 
a  Union  of  the  States.  [Cheers.]  Planting  our¬ 
selves  firmly  upon  a  peace  platform,  [that’s  right, 
and  cheers,]  with  a  candidate  pledged  to  restore 
peace  and  harmony,  [cheers,]  some  great  lion-hearted 
Democrat,  the  Union  shall  and  will  be  restored. 
[‘  Bully  for  you,’  and  loud  cheers.] 

Now,  my  friends,  we  have  had  war,  we  have  had 
administration,  desolation,  emancipation  and  dam¬ 
nation.  [Loud  cheers.] 

And  now  we  propose  to  apply  the  remedy — to 
administer  the  antidote — peace.  We  call  for  peace. 
God  of  our  fathers,  Gnaut  us  peace,  [Amen,]  peace 
in  our  hearts,  and  at  thine  altars  ;  peace  on  the  red 
waters  and  on  our  blighted  shores  ;  peace  for  be- 
leagured  cities  and  the  hosts  that  wait  around 
them  ;  peace  for  the  widows  and  fatheriess,  for  the 
sinning  and  sinned  against.  Grant  us  peace,  O 
God,  for  all,  and  for  a  distracted,  torn  and  bleed¬ 
ing  land.  Speed  the  great  time  of  peace.  [Im¬ 
mense  cheers.] 

SPEECH  OF  A  CATHOLIC  PRIEST. 

Rev.  J.  A.  McMa3ter8,  a  Catholic  priest, 
and  editor  of  the  Freeman's  Journal — a  lead¬ 
ing  Catholic  paper  of  New  York,  made  the 
following  infamous  speech.  It  is  filled  with 
falsehood  and  bitterness  for  his  Govern- 
sp&eut  and  love  and  respect  for  slave-driving 
rebels : 

Peace  is  the  magic  charm  that  has  drawn  you 
together.  From  your  farms,  from  your  workshops, 
and  your  counting  rooms,  you  have  seen  the  wide 
desolation  of  war.  The  groans  of  the  dying  and  the 


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wailing  of  the  bereaved  have  reached  your  ears  and 
moved  your  hearts,  and  you  come  to  pour  the  balm 
of  peace  into  their  bruised  and  lacerated  hearts. 

Your  mission  is  a  high,  and  holy,  and  a  glorious 
one.  As  a  public  journalist  I  was  one  of  the  first 
to  cry  out  against  the  nefarious  scheme  of  wholesale 
murder  involved  in  the  war.  I  am  proud  to  say 
that  time  has  vindicated  the  justness  of  my  position. 
Show  me  a  War  Democrat  to-day  and  I  will  show 
you  a  shoddy  Abolitionist  in  disguise.  A  man  who  is 
in  favor  of  this  unnatural  war,  insults  the  holy  name 
of  Democracy  when  he  claims  a  place  in  its  organi¬ 
zation.  He  is  a  Judas,  and  should  be  cast  out  as 
an  enemy  to  humanity  and  to  God .  War  and  blood, 
and  rapine,  and  murder,  is  the  legitimate  business  of 
the  Lincoln  minion.  We  wash  our  hands  clean  of  all 
participation  in  it.,  r  _j 

But  we  are  told  that  we  must  be  forced  to  carry 
arms  in  this  unholy  fight.  Soon  the  net  is  to  be 
drawn  that  will  gather  In  its  half  million  rnoye  to 
feed  the  insatiable  thirst  for  blood  of  the  Negro  God^ 
Let  us  demand  a  cessation  of  the  sacrifice  until  the 
people  shall  pronounce  tbeir  great  and  emphatic 
verdict  for  peace,  and  let  the  tyrant  understand 
that  the  demand  comes  from  earnest  men  gnd  must 
be  respected. 

We  are  often  called  the  “  Unterrified.”  I  trust 
you  are.  I  hope  that  your  nerves  may  be  of  steel, 
for  there  is  a  day  of  trial  coming,  and  you  must 
meet  it.  There  will  be  Provdst  Marshals  who 
will  sneak  into  your  family  circles  and  spy  into  your 
domestic  relations,  and  perhaps  cast  you  into  an 
Abolition  bastile.  Then  I  trust  to  find  you  1  unter¬ 
rified  ’  indeed.  Let  not  the  threats  of  bayonets  or 
greenbacks  of  this  Heaven-cursed  Administration 
frighten  you;  but  if  you  are  to  die,  die  as  becomes 
men,  in  a  struggle  for  your  rights;  live  not  as  be¬ 
comes  slaves.  In  the  platform  of  the  Convention 
to-morrow  we  shall  have  embodied  the  glorious  and 
sublime  doctrine  of  peace.  If.  you  will  sustain  the 
platform,  as.  I  know  you  will,  upon  our  country  will 
dawn  th«  brightest  era  this  nation  has  ever  seen, 
and  the  angels  of  God  will  come  down  to  earth  to 
bless  the  name  of  Democracy. 

senator  Richardson’s  slanders. 

Senator  Richardson,  of  Illinois,  spoke  at 
Bryan  Hall  on  Friday  evening,  Aug.  ‘26th. 
W  e  extract  from  the  Times  the  following: 

“  To  re-elect  Mr.  Lincoln  is  to  accept  four  years 
more  of  wax,  four  years  more  of  trouble,  of  disaster, 

•  of  woe,  of  lamentations,  of  ruin  to  the  country. 
[Applause.]  To  defeat  31  r.  Lincoln,  to  accept  the 
nominee  of  the  Chicago  Convention,  [cheers,]  is  to 
bring  peace  and  harmony  and  concord  and  union  to 
these  States.  [Loud  applause.]  ” 

“But  these  Republicans  say  they  would  be  very 
much  disgraced  if  they  were  to  propose  terms  of 
settlement  with  rebels  with  amts  in  their  hands. 
These  people  with  arms  in  tlieir 
hands  are  the  very  people  I  want  to 
settle  with.  I  am  not  afraid  of  a 
man  if  he  has  no  arms.” 

buA  .euniad  nannii!  1  "tu  hi >8  i>t*tn-*H 
RICHARDSON  CALLS  OCR  SOLDIER8  HIRELING 
HESSIANS. 

“  Fellow  citizens,  I  ask  you  to  turn  back  in  htetory 
and  tell  roe  where  it  was  that  ever  hired  soldiers  con¬ 
quered  a  peace.  When  the  Goth  and  Vandal  over 
ran  Rome,  and  the  people  turned  out  from  motives 
of  patriotism  and  love  of  country,  they  drove  them 
back.  For  a  hundred  years  the  Goth  and  Vanda) 
attempted  to  overrun  Rome.  But  after  a  while  the 
people  became  enervated,  and  they  hired,  as  we  are 
hiring  now,  the  soldier  to  fight  their  battles,  and  they 
were  conquered.  I  might- run  this  paral'el  through 
history,  but  I  will  give  but  one  other  example.  Dtxr- 
ing  the  American  Revolution,  when  vhe  people  of 
England  desired  to  prevent  this  country  from  sepa¬ 
rating  from  them,  and  when  they  turned  out,  their 
owti  people  into  the  army  th  y  took  Boston,  New 
York,  Philadelphia,  Baltimore,  Charleston,  the  Ches¬ 


apeake,  and  in  fact  the  entire  coast.  But  when  the 
feeling  changed  towards  us,  and  the  King  of  England 
was  compelled  to  hire  Hessians  to  come  here  and 
fight  us,  we  whipped  them.  You  cannot  win  victories 
with  hired  soldiers.  They  must  be  moved  by  a 
higher  motive  and  purer  patriotism  than  the  mere 
love  of  the  dollar  they  receive  for  their  services.” 

The  gallant  and  patriotic  soldiers  of  the 
Union  are  here  defamed  as  “hilling  Hes¬ 
sians;”  their  defeat  predicted  and  desired, 
and  the  triumph  of  the  rebels  taken  for 
granted.  “  Out  of  the  fullness  of  the  heart 
the  mouth  speaketh.”  At  the  very  moment 
this  old  rebel  sympathizer  was  proclaiming 
that  the  rebellion  could  not  be  subdued,  one- 
half  of  it  had  been  crushed  and  the  residue 
was  tottering,  notwithstanding  the  aid  and 
comfort  given  to  the  insurgents  by  such 
men  as  the  speaker. 

DEWITT,  OF  NEW  YORK,  STIGMATISES  THE  BRAVE 
POTOMAC  ARMY. 

Mr.  Dewitt,  of  New  York,  addressed  a 
crowd  from  the  balcony  of  the  Sherman 
House. 

“  Speaking  of  the  achievements  of  our  armies,  the 
speaker  said,  when  that  grand  army  that  had  crossed 
the  Rapidan  under  Gen.  Grant  had  failed,  what  could 
be  expected  of  an  army  df  conscripts,  hirelings  and 
negroes?  [Cheers  and  cries  of  “  Nothing.”]  Men 
taken  from  new  emigrants  just  arrived  upon  bur  soil; 
men  torn  unwillingly  from,  their  homes  and  forced 
into  the  ranks,  and  untiitored  Africans  —  these  were 
the  men  before  Richmond  and  Petersburg,  and  what 
could  be  expected  of  them,  when  a  grand  army  of 
chosen  men  had  failed  to  accomplish  good.” 

A  HISSING  REPTILE. 

S.  S.  Cox,  who  is  widely  known  to  be  the 
•most  intimate  and  confidential  friend  of 
Geo.  B.  McClellan,  among  political  men,  and 
next  to  Belmont,  the  leading  w ■ire-puller  for 
his  nomination,  made  the  fo  lowing  speech 
as  reported  in  the  Chicago  Times  : 

“Senator  Cox  being  introduced, . said  he  did  not 
want  to  use  any  harsh  language  towards  Old  Abe, 
[cries  of  “  give  it  to  him,”]  He  Ivad  attempted  in 
his  own  city,  a  few  weeks  since,  to  show  in  a  very 
quiet  way,  that  Abraham  Lincoln  had  deluged  the 
country  with  blood,  created  a  debt  of  four  thousand 
millions  of  dollars,  sacrificed  two  millions  of  human 
lives,  and  filled  the  land  with  grief,  and  mourning. 

A  pious  man  who  had  listened  attentively  to  his 
remarks,  sang  out,  ‘  G — d!$j - d  him.’ 

He  did  not  agree  with  his  pious  friend.  He  hoped 
God  would  have  mercy  ou  Abraham  Lincoln,  but 
at  the  November  election  the  people  would  damn 
him  to  immortal  infamy.  [Immense. cheering,] 

One  of  our  friends,  Judge  Hall,  had  been  at  rested 
in  Missouri  a  short  time  since  because  he  happened  to 
say  that  Jefferson  Davis  was  no  greater  enemy  to  the 
Constitution  than  Lincoln,  lie  (the  speaker)  would 
say  it  boldly ;  let  them  arrest  him.  [Cheers  and 
cries,  “  they  dare  not.”] 

The  speaker  concluded  by  recapitulating  the  Infa¬ 
mous  actions  of  the.  President,  showed  how  he  had 
exercised  fraud  to  overpower  and  defeat  the  purposes 
of  loyal  people,  and  said  Republicans,  Wade  and 
Davis,  not  democrats,  were  his  accusors.  lie  ex¬ 
horted  the  people  to  join  in  the  grand  determination 
to  remove  the  despot  from  the  place  which  he  was 
unfit  to  fill.” 

The  report  of  the  Chicago  Tribune,  adds 
the  following; 


“  For  less  offenses  than  Mr.  Lincoln  hud  been  guilty  ! 
of,  the  English  peop  e  had  chopped  off  the  head  of 
the  first  Charles.  In  his  opinion,  Lincoln  and  Davis  • 
ought  to  be  brought  to  the  same  block  together.  The 
other  day  they  arrested  a  friend  of  his,  a  member  of 
Congress,  from  Missouri,  for  saying  in  private  conver¬ 
sation,  that  Lincoln  was  no  better  than  Jeff.  Davis. 
He  was  ready  to  say  the  same  now  here  in  Chicago. 
Let  the  minions  of  the  administration  object,  if  they 
dare. ” 

“He  asked,  did  they  want  the  whole  country  mort¬ 
gaged  for  the  freedom  of  the  negro  ?  ” 

He  would  be  entirely  willing  to  mortgage 
the  whole  country  to  pay  Jeff.  Davis’  debt  ! 
incurred  in  securing  the  slavery  of  the  negro. 

“  If  this  war  was  to  continue  four  years  longer, 
where  would  we  bring  up  ?  ” 

He  might  have  asked,  if  this  war  should 
continue  one  year  longer,  where  would  the  i 
Rebels  bring  up  ? 

STAMBAUGH  PREFERS  DISUNION  TO  THE  FREE-  j 
DOM  OF  THE  SLAVES.  j 

“  Mr.  Siambaugh,  a  delegate  from  6hio,  said,  ‘that 
if  he  was  called  upon  to  elect  between  the  freedom 
of  the  nigger  and  disunion  and  separation,  he 
should  choose  the  latter.  [Cheers.]  Bayo¬ 
nets  and  cannon,  and  above  all,  negro  emancipation,  : 
cannot  conquer  a  permanent  peace.’  His  plan  for  ] 
the  solution  cf  these  difficulties,  was  an  armistice, 
and  an  arrangement  for  a  joint  Convention,  in  which 
to  talk  over  and  arrange  all  family  grievances.  He 
was  certain  that  iD  Ohio,  the  entire  community  were 
in  favor  of  peace.” 

HE  ADVOCATES  REPUDIATION. 

“One  reason  why  the  Democrats  shou’d  support 
the  candidate  of  the  Convention,  whoever  he  might 
be,  was,  that  they  might  search  hell  over  and  they 
could  not  find  a  worse  President  than  Abraham  Lin¬ 
coln.  When  this  war  is  over,  he  would  not  give  a 
pinch  of  snuff  for  the  5. 20s  and  the  10.40s  now  hoard¬ 
ed  by  the  rich.” 

JUDGE  ALEXANDER  WANTS  AN  ARMISTICE. 

“  Judge  Alexander,  of  Kentucky,  was  then  intro¬ 
duced.  After  a  few  introductory  remarks,  he  said, 

“  was  the  Constitution  to  be  restored  by  the  party  in 
power?  [Cries  of  ‘  No,  no.’]  Was  it  to  be  restored 
by  a  continuance  of  the  war?  [Cries  of  ‘No.’] 
Since  they  could  not  do  it  by  shedding  blood,  he 
would  ask  how  were  they  to  obtain  peace?  They  had 
tried  the  bayonet  and  failed,  and  they  would  now 
try  the  ballot  because  with  it  they  would  drive  out 
Lincoln  and  his  minions.  In  order  to  stop  the  war 
they  must  have  an  armistice,  to  be  followed  by  a  con¬ 
vention  of  all  the  States.  No  war  had  ever  been  j 
settled  except  by  compromise,  from  the  time  when 
Moses  fouj/ht.  the  Amalekites  down  to  the  present  1 
day.  If  they  did  not  believe  this,  then  they  must 
beiieve  that  the  physical  powers  were  superior  to  the 
meDtal  powers,  and  if  such  were  the  case,  then  they 
t,ad  better  leave  the  abode  of  civilization,  and  go 
forth  to  the  wild  prairies  to  live.  [Cheers  ]  He 
could  tell  them  that  Kentucky  would  stand  by  the 
nominee  of  the  Convention.  [Loud  and  prolonged 
cheeriDg.]  He  felt  assured  that  the  proper  platform 
would  be  submitted,  and  would  contain  a  plan  for  an 
armistice  and  a  Convention  of  States.  Thep  their 
grief  and  sorrows  would  pass  away,  and  the  people  j 
would  cry,  “Let  us  have  peace.’’  [Cheers]  He 
concluded  by  relating  a  couple  of  anecdotes  which 
created  much  laughter.  One  of  them  had  reference 
to  the  opinion  of  a  Kentucky  gemleman  who  thought 
that  as  Mr.  Lincoln  was  so  fond  cf  the  negro,  he 
should  have  one  of  the  slain  ones  skinned  and  made  j 
into  a  pair  of  moccasins  for  bis  daily  wear,” 


COL.  CARR,  ON  BUCHANAN  AND  LINCOLN. 

Col.  Carr  was  then  introduced.  He  said  he  con¬ 
sidered  this  one  of  the  proudest  days  in  American 
history.  Between  three  and  four  years  ago  the  Re¬ 
publican  party  had  met  to  nominate  a  person  for  Pre¬ 
sident,  and  selected  a  citizen  of  Illinois.  It  was  not 
the  first  time  a  King  had  been  deposed  and  a  fool  put 
in  his  place.  In  former  times  kings  had  kept  fools  to 
keep  from  wearying,  but  this  was  the  first  country 
that,  had  elected  a  fool  to  reign  over  it.  [Chesrs  and 
laughter.] 

NO  DIFFERENCE  BETWEEN  A  WAR  DEMOCRAT 
AND  AN  ABOLITIONIST. 

Hon.  Mr.  Trainor,  of  Ohio,  (President  of 
the  State  Convention  last  year,)  said: 

If  you  wish  for  peace,  great,  glorious  peace,  Vote 
for  the  nominee  of  the  Democratic  Convention.  A. 
bloody  war  has  been  waged,  not  for  the  liberty  of  the 
white  man,  but  for  elevating  him  to  equality  with  the 
negro.  At  the  first  call  75,000  were  called.  They 
proved  insufficient.  Next  300,000  more;  and  some 
2.000,000  Jives  have  been  lost  in  this  war.  Now  the 
President  has  called  for  500,000  more.  Shall  he  have 
them  ?  [“  No,  no,”  from  the  audience.]  The  demo¬ 

cratic  party  want  peace ;  for  if  we  don’t  get  it  we  will 
have  to  submit  to  a  military  despot. 

He  would  urge  the  people  to  be  freemen,  and  hurl 
Abraham  Lincoln  and  his  minions  from  power. 
THERE  IS  NO  DIFFERENCE  BETWEEN  A  WAR 
DEMOCRAT  AND  AN  ABOLITIONIST.  THEY 
ARE  BOTH  LINKS  IN  THE  SAME'  SAUSAGE, 
MADE  OUT  (IF  THE  SAME  DOG.  Should  resist¬ 
ance  be  offered  at  the  polls  to  prevent  our  suffrage, 
let  that  resistance  be  met  with  resistance.  [To  a 
question.]  The  South  will  gladly  come  back  if  Abra¬ 
ham  Lincoln  be  hurled  from  power.  He  has  killed 
more  men  by  his  proclamations  than  the  rebel  Gen¬ 
eral  Lee. 

Why  don’t  the  “  South  ”  pay  that  it  will 
come  back  if  Lincoln  be  “  hurled  from 


assertions  made? 

SATURDAY,  August  27. 

Tim  Chicago  Times  says,  of  the  meetings 
held  on  Saturday  evening,  which  were  large- 
|  ly  attended  as  well  bv  the  peace  svmpathiz- 
1  ers  and  “  plug  tig-lie s ”  of  the  whole  country, 
as  by  those  curious  to  hear  what  the  friends 
of  peace  with  the  rebels,  and  war  with  the 
government,  had  to  say  — 

“  The  demonstration  last  night  was  not  a  meeting 
merely;  it  was  a  whole  constellation  of  meetings. 
The  grand  centre  of  the  city— Randolph,  Clark, 
Washington,  and  La  Salle  streets,  in  the  vicinity  of 
the  Court-House — and  the  Oourt-House  Square,  pre¬ 
sented  one  solid  mass  of  human  beings.  And  these 
were  independent  of  the  crowds  that  had  assembled 
in  other  parts  of  the  city  —  in  the  Democratic  Invin¬ 
cible  Club  Hall,  in  Bryan  Hall,  and  in  the  remote 
streets.  From  7  until  10  o’clpck,  there  were  continual, 
unbroken  columns  pouring  from  all  directions  to¬ 
wards  the  Court-House  and  the  adjacent  thorough¬ 
fares  . 

During  the  entire  evening  there  were,  at  all  times, 
five  ;peakers  holding  forth  to  thousands  of  assembled 
citizens,  and  almost  within  the  sound  of  each  other’s 
voices.  The  number  of  people  composing  the  grand 
nucleus  of  the  entire  assemblage,  was  at  no  time 
during  the  evening  estimattd  at  less  than  forty  thou¬ 
sand,  even  by  the  most  scrupulous.” 

VIEWS  OF  A  NEUTRAL  KENTUCKIAN. 

Gon.  Leslie  Coombs  thinks  our  Southern 
brethren  drew  the  sword- 


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“  Alas,  that  I  should  live  to  see  these  evil  days  ; 
to  think  that  our  southern  brethren  should  draw  the 
sword  !  I  told  them  in  the  beginning  of  this  strife  of 
sections,  that  they  were  throwing  -fire-balls  to  am-  , 
bitious  devils  that,  would  turn  theru  on  our  own  house, 
and  they  would  not  care  a  d — n  if  it  were  set  on  fire. 
[Laughter.]  But,  sir,  allow  me  to  say  I  shall  live  — 
old  as  I  am — L  shall  live  to  see  this  strife  ended  ;  I 
shall  live  to  see  the  bonds  of  national  fraternity  again 
united  ;  I  shall  live  to  see  this  paper-money  abated  ; 
this  gunpowder  currency,  which  I  would  not  use  for 
wadding  tokdla  prairie  chicken,  abated,  and  turned 
into  gold  and  silver.”  [Applause.] 

Gen.  Coomb?,  tired  of  the  war  and  a 
little  scared,  said : 

“  I  am  tired  of  this  war.  I  am  tired  of  the  lamen¬ 
tations  in  my  ears  all  around  me.  I  tell  yon,  gentle- 
men,  you  know  nothing  of  the  horrors  of  this  war 
here  If  you  could1  see  the  guerillas  pouring  into 
your  villages  and  every  part  of  the  State,  and  citizens 
flying,  as  I  have  seen  them  in  my  town,  Lexington, 
you  would  know  something  of  the  horrors  of  this 
war.  And  when  I  but  just  now  left  my  home,  my 
town  was  guarded  by  negroes,  no  white  man  left  with 
the  privilege  of  a  gun  in  his  hand.  I  am  not  a  slave¬ 
holder.  Eight  years  ago  I  set  mine  free.  I  emanci¬ 
pated  them  myseif,  for  I  did  not  intend  to  let  any 
other  man  emancipate  them.  [Applause.]  So  I 
left  my  family  in  the  hands  of  emancipated  slaves, 
for  my  negroes  would  not  leave  me.  I  tell  you,  I 
have  seen  those  (democratic)  guerillas  charging  down 
through  town  when  it  was  rather  delicate  looking.out 
of  the  windows,  because  you  could  not  know  where  a 
bullet  m'ght  be  coming.” 

His  advice  cuts  both  ways. 

“  We  read  in  ancient  history  of  the  siege  of  the 
great  city  of  the  Hebrews,  and  that  whilst  Titus  was 
daily  battering  down  their  walls,  the  factious  Jews 
were  quarreling  among  themselves  every  night. 
But  for  God’s  sake,  dou’t  let  us  be  like  the  Jews 
quarreling  amongst  ourselves,  and  devouring  one 
another  in  these  times  of  the  extremity  of  our  imper¬ 
iled  institutions  of  freedom.” 

He  then  gives  a  piece  of  advice  which  in 
itself  would  abolish  slavery. 

“  Let  each  man  kiss  his  own  wife  and  nobody  elee’s 
wife,  and  let  each  woman  whip  her  own  children.” 

This  is  all  the  abolitionists  have  ever 
asked.  It  would  put  an  end  to  the  “  sum 
of  all  villanies,”  stop  mulatto  breeding  and 
give  peace  to  the  Union,  and  perpetuity  to 
free  institutions. 

THE  OLD  THREAT. 

Hon.  H.  S.  Orton,  of  Wisconsin,  repeats 
the  old  Southern  threat:  “  Elect  us  or  we?ll 
split  you  ” 

“  The  fanaticism  of  the  North  conjoined  with  the 
fanaticism  of  the  South  has  run  its  course,  and  it  is 
for  us,  the  conservative  masses  of  the  United  States, 
to  say  whether  it  shall  longer  prevail,  or  whether 
the  government,  the  constitution  and  the  Union  shall 
be  preserved  and  resume  their  sway.  On  this  con¬ 
vention  and  the  one  to  fallow  it,  hangs  the  fate  of  this 
great  Republic.  Bearit  in  mind  and  recollect  it  well 
and  solemnly  that  on  these  conventions  rests  the  fate 
of  this  Union.  And  what  is  involved  in  that?  To 
an  American  everything — life,  property,  all  the  en- 
dearrr  ents  of  home  and  society — everything  that 
Americans  hold  dear. 

In  Wisconsin  Lincoln  has  no  party  left,  except 
himself  and  his  officers  and  satraps,  —  that  is  all 
there  is  left  of  them. 

I  pledge  you  my  word  it  is  all  that  is  left  in  the 
State  of  Wisconsin— the  collectors  of  the  revenue, 


the  assessors  and  their  dependents,  are  all  the  strength 
that  Abe  Lincoln  has  in  these  free  Sta’es.  And  they 
are  to  rule  over  us.  Are  you  going  to  submit.to  it  ?  ” 
[Cries  of  *  no.’] 

Like  Mark  Antony  over  the  dead  body  of 
Cassar  he  “  would  not  stir  up  their  minds 
and  hearts  to  sudden  mutiny.” 

“  I  do  not  countenance  forcible  resistance  to  any 
law.  Iam  an  advocate  of  law.  In  I860  I  did  not 
have  the  honor  to  vote  for  that  great  and  good  man 
whose  spirit  now  rests  in  God,  Mr.  Douglas  [Cheer?]  ; 
but  I  voted  for  Bell  and  Everett,  and  to-day  I  don’t 
know  which  of  them  is  the  best  off.  Bell  has  gone 
over  to  the  secessionists,  and  Everett  gone  over  to 
the  abolitionists,  and  I  am  without  candidates  to-day, 
and  1  don’t  know  which  of  them  has  gone  into  the 
worst  company.”  [Laughter  and  cheers.] 

Neither  he  nor  the  South  will  return  to 
the  old  Union  if  slavery  is  destroyed. 

V  J 

“  You  want  the  constitution,  the  rights  of  ’.he 
States,  and  a  return  of  the  old  Union.  Where  is  the 
old  Union?  A  schoolboy’s  tale,  the  wonder  of  an 
hour  !  We  want  a  return  to  it  with  the  constitution, 
but  not  otherwise.  After  every  right  established  by 
our  fathers  was  broken  down  and  destroyed  would  I 
return  to  it?  Or  would  the  South  return  to  it  ?  ” 

‘Resistance  to  the  draft  will  save  slavery 

—  save  the  South  —  and  set  the  sun,  mobn  • 

and  stars  back  in  the  firmament  once  more. 

• 

“  Now  is  the  time  to  return  to  the  right  path. 
Under  iho  pressure  of  the  draft — and  God  bless  the 
draft,  it  is  the  best  argument  that  has  ever  been 
addressed  to  the  American  people.  It  proves  that 
we  have  touched  bottom,  we  have  got  a  realizing 
sense  that  we  have  got  nearly  to  the  last  ditch,  the 
last  man,  and  the  last  dollar.  Under  the  pressure 
of  the  time  stop  and  save  your  goven  ment  ;  for  if 
it  is  gone  now  it  is  gone  forever,  and  there  is  a  future 
of  darkness  and  gloom.  The  stars  of  heaven  are 
blotted  out,  the  moon  will  refuse  to  shine,  the  sun 
will  rise  no  more  in  the  fair  firmament  of  the  Amer¬ 
ican  Republic  !  ” 

VUIAT  YOUNG  MORRIS  KETCHUM  SAID. 

_  ’  •  •  v  .  Q  ; ’ »  C  t  Y  •  *  '  J  U  f)  Y  «  * 

Young  Ketchum  of  New  York,  son  of  the 
pro-slavery  banker,  had  no  confidence  in 
democratic  principles  or  professions,  and 
said : 

“  Now,  gentlemen,  we  want  our  man  for  two 
reasons.  In  the  first  place  the  people  of  the  city  of 
New  York  are  sick  of  platforms.  We  have  not  had 
j  a  platform  for  eight  years  given  to  us  by  either  side 
which  has  been  maintained  aftej-  its  adoption.  And 
though  we  approve  of  the  motto,  *  principles,  not 
men,’  yet  we  feel  that  we  have  been  so  often  de¬ 
ceived  that  we  now  want  a  man  who  shall  be  a  princi¬ 
ple  in  himself,  and  whose  principles  we  are  willing 
to  support.  We  want  to  elect  a  man  who  will  say 
to  the  South,  1  Come  back,  we  will  restore  to  you 
every  constitutional  privilege,  every  guarantee  that 
yon  ever  possessed ;  your  rights  shall  no  longtr  be 
invaded  ;  we  will  wipe  out  the  emancipation  procla¬ 
mation  ;  we  will  sweep  away  this  confiscation  act,  all 
that  we  ask  of  you  is  to  come  back  and  live  with  us 
on  the  old  terms.  We  are  both  tired  and  weary,  and 
want  to  live  together  again,’” 

But  suppose  the  rebels  refuse  to  ccrae 
back  on  any  terms,  —  they  have  a  million 
times  declared  they  never  would  voluntarily 
return.  What  then  ?  Has  all  the  fighting 
to  be  done  over  again  ?  Young  Ketchum 
!  was  candid  enough  to  state  the  consequence 


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of  allowing  the  Union  to  be  divided.  He 
said  : 

“  *  This  Union  must  and  shall  be  preserved.’  God 
Almighty  set  the  seal  of  Union  on  this  land  when  he 
poured  the  mighty  waters  of  that  great  river  through 
this  valley  of  the  Mississippi  down  to  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico.  Tliis  was  his  seal  that  the  land  should 
never  be  divided.  You  may  separate  to-morrow  and 
recognize  them  as  an  independent  nation,  but  let  me 
tall  you  that  before  five  or  ten  years  have  rolled  over 
your  heads,  you  would  have  the  same  war,  bloody, 
bitter,  and  everlasting  as  now.” 

This  is  what  Ketchum  said.  Now  listen 
to  what  Jeff  Davis  says.  In  his  late  con¬ 
versation  with  Col.  Jacques  and  James  Ret 
Gilmore,  he  said : 

“  I  tried  all  in  my  power  to  avert  this  war.  I  saw 
it'  coming,  and  for  twelve  years  [it  was  not 
Lincoln,  then,  that  caused  the  war,]  I  worked  night 
and  day  to  prevent  it,  but  I  could  not.  The  North 
was  mad  and  blind  ;  it  would  not  let  us  govern  our¬ 
selves,  and  so  the  war  came,  and  now  it  must  go 
on,  till  the  last  man  of  this  generation  falls : in  hi3 
track,  and  his  children  seize  his  musket  and  fight  his 
battles,  unless  you  acknowledge  our  rights  of  self- 
government.  We  are  not  fighting  for  slave¬ 
ry.  We  are  fighting  for  independence  — 
and  that  or  extermination  we  will  have.” 

.  What  good  will  “wiping  out  the  emanci¬ 
pation  proclamation,”  and  “  sweeping  away 
the  confiscat:on  act effect  towards  a  res¬ 
toration  of  the  Union? 

“  But.  tell  me,  said  Davis,  are  the  terms  you  have 
named  —  emancipation,  no  confiscation,  and  univer¬ 
sal  amnesty  —  the  terms  which  Mr.  Lincoln  author¬ 
ized  you  to  offer  us  ?  ” 

“No,  sir;  replied  Col.  Jacques,  Mr.  Lincoln  did 
not  authorize  me  to  offer  you  any  terms.  But  I 
think  both  he  and  the  Northern  people,  for  the  sake 
of  peace,  would  assent  to  some  such  conditions.” 

“  But,  replied  Mr.  Davis,  amnesty,  sir,  applies  to 
criminals.  We  have  committed  no  crime.  Confisca¬ 
tion  is  of  no  account  unless  you  can  enforce  it. 
And  emancipation!  You  have  already  emancipated 
nearly  a  million  of  our  slaves -r- and  if  you  will 
take  care  of  them,  you  may  emancipate  the 
rest.  I  had  a  few  when  the  war  began.  1  was  of 
some  use  to  them  ;  they  never  were  of  any  to  me. 
Against  their  will  you  ‘  emancipated  ’  them,  and 
you  may  ‘  emancipate  ’  every  negro  in 
the  Confederacy,  but  we  will  be  free  ! 
We  will  govern  ourselves.  We  will  do  it  if  we  have 
to  3ee  every  Southern  plantation  sacked,  and  every 
Southern  city  in  flames.” 

“  Well,  sir,  said  Col.  Jacques,  be  that  as  it  may, 
if  I  understand  you,  the  dispute  between  your  Gov¬ 
ernment  and  ours  is  r^rrowed  down  to  this :  Union 
or  disunion.” 

“Yes;  or  to  put  it  otherwise:  Independence 
Or  subjugation.” 

“  Ihen  the  two  Governments  are  irreconcilably 
apart.  They  have  no  alternative  but  to  fight  it 
out.” 

BITTER  DENUNCIATION  OF  THE  PRESIDENT, 
ENCOURAGEMENT  TO  REBELS. 

Mr.  Romeyn,  of  New  York,  said  : 

“  Mr.  Lincoln  has  vi  lated  the  rights  of  the  States 
and  the  sacred  rights  of  man.  He  proposes  to  lib¬ 
erate  the  slaves  of  the  South  and  turn  them  upon  the 
Nprth  to  live  in  idleness  and  vagrancy,  and  become 
paupers  and  burthens  to  society.  He  refuses  to  al¬ 
low  the  Southern,  States  their  constitutional  rights 
even  if  they  returned  to  the  Union.  The  South  will 
never  submit  to  such  terras,  nor  would  the  North  un¬ 
der  similar  circumstances.” 


What  constitutional  right  did  the 
“  South  ”  not  enjoy  before  secession  ?  Is  it 
a  violation  of  the  rights  of  the  States  for 
the  President  to  enforce  the  Constitution 
and  the  laws  ? 

REED  OPPOSES  THE  DRAFT. 

Hon.  Mr.  Reed,  of  Indiana,  was  in  favor 
of  peace  at  the  South,  but  would  rather 
have  war  in  the  North  than  a  draft; 

He  advised  open  and  aboveboard  resistance  to 
the  draft.  If  Lincoln  and  his  satraps  attempted  to 
enforce  it,  blood  would  flow  in  our  streets,  and  it 
would  be  right  it  should  flow.  Lincoln  was  already 
damned  to  all  eternity,  and  he  did  not  know  if  even 
this  iniquitous!  measure  would  materially  affect  the 
estimation  in  which  the  people,  held  him.  He  had 
taken  considerable  pains  to  inform  himself  of  the 
opinion  of  the  people  in  relation  to  tliis  draft,  and  he 
found  it  altogether  condemned.  There  was  hut  one 
opinion  in  this  matter,  and  that  was,  that  if  the  draft 
was  not  enforced  there  would  he  peace.  Mr.  Lincoln 
had  tried  war  for  three  years  ;  he  had  slain  our  peo¬ 
ple  by  countless  thousands,  and  blood  enough  had 
been  shed  to  float  the  largest  ship  of  war  in  the 
world.  He  said  we  might  as  well  make  up  our  minds 
to  the  fact  that  it  was  impossible  to  whip  the  South, 
and  then  asked,  would  the  people  consent  that  their 
best  and  noblest  men  should  be  swept  down  by  the 
relentless  conscript  law?  No,  a  thousand  times  no, 
was  his  answer.  He  further  continued  his  inflamma¬ 
tory  appeals  concerning  the  draft,  and  advised  open 
and  associated  resistance  to  its  enforcement. 

He  advised  his  hearers  to  shoot  down  those  who 
would  enforce  the  draft ;  to  insist  upon  the  right  of 
the  writ  of  habeas  corpus ;  to  resist  to  the  bitter 
end  the  attempt  to  make  the  military  power  superior 
to  the  civil,  and  to  openly  arm  themselves  that  they 
might  be  prepared  for  horrible  contingencies. 

Mr.  Reed’s  attention  is  affectionately  di¬ 
rected  to  the  following  democratic  epistle : 

“  Headquarters  Army  of  tbk  Potomac,  1 

October  2T,  1862.  f 

“  Your  Excellency  is  aware  of  the  very  great  re¬ 
duction  of  numbers  that  has  taken  place  in  most  of 
the  old  regiments  of  this  command,  aud  how  neces¬ 
sary  it  is  to  fill  up  these  skeletons  before  taking  them 
again  into  action.  I  have  the  honor,  there¬ 
fore.  to  request  that  the  order  to  fill  up 
the  old  regiments  with  drafted  men  may 
at  once  be  issued. 

GEO.  B.  McCLF.LI.AN, 
Major  General  Commanding. 

His  Excellency,  the  President.” 

The  Chicago  limes  tfyps,  introduces  its  re¬ 
port  of  Rynders’  speech  : 

“the  invincible  club. 

“  At  an  early  hour  in  the  evening  the  hall  of  the 
Democratic  Invincible  Club,  corner  of  Clark  and 
Monroe  streets,  was  filled  with  a  most  enthusiastic 
audience  to, listen  to  an  address  on  the  great  ques¬ 
tions  of  the  day  by  Captain  Daiah  Rynders,  the  well 
known  President  of  the  Empire  Democratic  Club, 
New  York.” 

The  chairman  of  the  Invincible  Club  in¬ 
troduced  him  in  the  following  terms: 

“  He  had  now  much  pleasure  in  introducing  to  the 
meeting. Captain  Isaiah  Rynders,  [cheers] — a  gentle- 
I  man  well  known,  and  who  had  done  such  good  ser  ¬ 
vice  in  the  cause  of  democracy.  [Loud  applause.]  * 

RYNDERS1  FREE  SPEECH, 

Capt.  Rynders,  thus  eulogized  the  rebels, 
denounced  his  government,  slandered  the 


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friends  of  freedom  and  Union,  and  clamored 
for  a  disunion  peace  : 

He  had  always  been  for  peace,  even  before  the  first 
gun  was  fired.  He  had  denounced  the  unholy  cru¬ 
sade  against  our  southern  brethren  even  before  the 
first  regiment  was  moved  Southward.  He  saw  the 
inevitable  result,  of  war  —  tne  waste,  and  blood  and 
tears  it  would  entail,  and  to  this  day  he  could  say, 
and  he  said  it  with  pride,  that  he  had  never  said  one 
word  against  the  brave,  the  noble,  the  generous,  the 
chivalrous  people  of  the  South,  and  lie  trusted  in  God 
he  never  would. 

Nearly  half  a  million  of  those  noble  men  had  fallen 
in  bloody  graves,  but  they  remain  unconquered. 
[Cheers  ]  They  can  never  be  subdued,  as  they  are  a 
part  of  our  own  flesh  and  blood.  [Loud  applause.] 
Millions  more  of  men  may  be  torn  from  their  homes 
to  fall  in  the  fight,  but  the  task  will  fail,  as  it  oueht 
to  do.  The  war  is  carried  on  for  the  nigger,  and  in 
God’s  name  let  the  Abolitionists  fight  it  out.  We 
shall  nominate  our  candidate  on  Monday,  and  place 
him  squarely  upon  a  platform  of  peace,  and  sweep 
the  nation  like  a  whirlwind.  Those  who  count  upon 
a  division  of  the  ^Democratic  party  will  be  disap¬ 
pointed  .  We  are  one  and  all  for  peace,  and  with  this 
magic  word  upon  our  banner  we  shall  sweep  over  the 
course,  and  roll  into  oblivion  the  black,  negro-loving, 
negro-hugging  worshippers  of  old  Abe  Lincoln. 

HE  IS  SOLICITOUS  FOR  A  FREE  FIGHT 

I  will  tell  you,  my  Republican  friends,  I  know  you 
have  been  pretty  supercilious,  you  have  been  defiant, 
you  have  been  outrageous  ;  but  I  know  I  speak  the 
heart  and  voice  of  the  old  war-worn  democracy  when 
I  say  ti  at  next  fall  we  intend  to  have  a  free  election, 
free  ballot,  free  assemblage  together,  or  tho  freest 
fight  that  ever  took  place  in  this  country.  [Tre¬ 
mendous  cheering.] 

DENIES  THAT  THE  REBELS  ARE  TRAITORS. 

“After  three  y  ears  of  despotism  he  stood  before 
them  a  free  man — before  a  free  people.  With  refer¬ 
ence  to  the  remark  which  he  had  referred  to,  he 
would  now  speak  after  the  digression  he  had  just 
made.  It  was  a  remark  he  did  not  approve  of.  He 
had  heard  one  of  the  speakers  state  that  the  people 
of  the  South  were  traitors,  which  were  harsh  words, 
as  the  people  of  the  South  were  as  brave  and  chiv¬ 
alrous  a  people  as  were  ever  put  on  this  earth. 
[Cheers.]  He  had  regretted  that  they  took  the  step 
they  did  for  the  settlement  of  their  grievances,  for 
they  had  great  grievances.  He  was  sorry  they  took 
these  steps,  ami  his  advice  was  to  stay  in  the  demo¬ 
cratic  party,  and  they  would  right  their  grievances. 
They,  however,  seemed  to  think  differently,  and  he 
was  sorry  for  it.  Never  h  id  one  word  come  from  his 
lips  against  them,  and  he  hoped  his  lips  would  be 
sealed  when  he  did  injustice  to  a  brave,  noble,  and 
chivalrous  people.  [Applause.]  ” 

SUFFERING  BRETHREN  IN  CAMP  DOUGLAS. 

“The  abolitionists  now  thought  more  of  the  colored 
man  than  the  free  white  man  in  the  East.  They 
could  not  see  the  white  man,  suffering  from  want  and 
destitution,  but  they  have  to  look  to  the  colored  man 
in  Alabama  arid  Louisiana.  They  could  see  them, 
but  not  the  misery  of  the  white  man.  They  could  not 
look  to  Camp  Douglas  nor  to  Fort  Lafayette  and  see 
white  men  languishing  in  bondage.  [Cheers  ]  They 
have  no  sympathies  for  these  men,  because,  in  the 
celebrated  language  of  the  clergyman  at  Beaufort, 
*  he  invariably  has  a  white  skin.’ 

“  He  next  alluded  in  withering  terms  to  Lincoln’s 
apology  to  the  Emperor  Napoleon  relative  to  the  res¬ 
olution  which  passed  the  House  of  Representatives 
regarding  the  carrying  out  of  the  Monroe  doctrine.” 

Ry  nders  was  not  then  aware  that  the  de¬ 
mocracy  had  already  been  passed  over  to 
Belmont,  the  Rothschilds,  and  the  other 
holders,  not  only  of  Jeff.  Davis’  debt,  but  of 
Maximilian’s,  and  that  their  platform  would 
repudiate  the  Monroe  doctrine  altogether. 


GEORGE  F.  TRAIN  IN  FAVOR  OF  DISSOLVING 
THE  UNION,  AND  UNITING  PART  OF  THE 
NORTH  WITH  THE  SLAVE  STATES. 

“The  South  and  West  had  always  been  firm  friends. 
Did  we  in  the  West  produce  this  war?  We  are  not 
now  the  enemies  of  the  South.  The  West  and  the 
South  will  eventually  close  up,  New  York  and  Penn¬ 
sylvania  will  follow,  and  finally  we  will  be  all  together 
again,  except  puritanical,  fanatical,  New  England. 
She  will  be  left  alone,  and  all  the  niggers  will  be 
driven  within  her  boundaries.” 


MONDAY,  August  29. 

The  Convention  was  called  to  order  by 
August  Belmont,  Chairman  of  the  National 
Democratic  Committee,  financial  agent  of 
the  Rothschilds,  and  the  representative  in 
that  capacity  of  the  Confederate  debt. 
He  represents  the  money  that  pays  the 
rebel  armies.  He  said  : 

“  In  your  hands  rests,  under  the  ruling  of  an  all¬ 
wise  Providence,  the  future  of  this  Republic.  Four 
years  of  misrule,  by  a  sectional,  fanatical  and  cor¬ 
rupt  party,  have  brought  our  country  to  the  very 
verge  of  ruin.” 

Where  he  says  “  couptry,”  the  people 
will  of  course  read  “  rebellion  and  Confed¬ 
erate  bonds.” 

“  The  past  and  present  are  sufficient  warnings  of 
the  disastrous  consequences  which  would  befall  us  if 
Mr.  Lincoln’s  re-election  should  be  made  possible  by 
our  want  of  patriotism  and  unity.  The  inevitable 
results  of  such  a  calamity  must  be  the  utter  disinte¬ 
gration  of  our  whole  political  and  social  system 
amidst  bloodshed  and  anarchy,  with  the  great  prob¬ 
lems  of  liberal  progress  and  self-government  jeop¬ 
ardized  for  generations  to  come.” 

He  thinks  the  cause  of  the  rebellion  was 
the  failure  of  northern  democrats  to  agree 
with  their  southern  brethren. 

“  Let  us  at  the  very  outset  of  our  proceedings  bear 
in  mind  that  the  •dissensions  of  the  last  Democratic- 
Convention  were  one  of  the  principal  causes  which 
gave  the  reins  of  government  into  the  hands  of  our 
opponents,  and  let  us  beware  not  to  fall  again  into 
the  same  fatal  error.” 

He  tells  them  to  sacrifice  all  their  honest 
convictions,  if  they  have  any,  but  says  noth¬ 
ing  about  “Confederate  bonds.” 

“  WTe  must  bring  at  the  altar  of  our  country  the 
sacrifice  of  our  prejudices,  opinions  and  convictions, 
however  dear  and  long  cherished  they  may  be,  from 
the  moment  they  threaten  the  harmony  and  unity  of 
action  so  indispensable  to  our  success/’ 

He  nominated  for  temporary  chairman, 
Mr.  Buchanan’s  shadow,  and  the  defender  of 
the  rights  of  the  rebellion  and  anti-coercion- 
ism  in  the  Senate  of  1860 — Hon.  William 
Bigler,  of  Pennsylvania. 

He  said : 

“  The  termination  of  democratic  rule  in  this  coun¬ 
try  was  the  end  of  peaceful  relations  between  the 
States  a&d  the  people.” 

In  other  words,  when  the  democratic 
party,  though  grown  so  sectional  that  it 
could  hardly  carry  a  single  free  State,  still 
carried  the  general  election,  the  republican 


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party  submitted.  ]}ut  when  the  democratic 
party  was  beaten,  it  rebelled  and  went  in 
for  a  free  fight  in  every  State  which  it  con¬ 
trolled.  Well  may  democrats  boast,  that 
with  the  end  of  their  power  ended  peace,  if 
they  themselves  made  the  overthrow  of 
their  power  a  cause  of  rebellion. 

“  The  elevation  of  a  sectional  party  to  authority 
at  Washington,  the  culmination  of  a  long  indulged 
aDd  acrimonious  war  of  crimination  and  recrimina¬ 
tion  between  extreme  men  at  the  North  and  South, 
was  promptly  followed  by  dissolution  and  civil  war. 
And  in  the  progress  of  that  war  even  tHte  bulwarks 
of  civil  liberty  have  been  imperiled  and  the  whole 
fabric  brought  to  the  very  verge  of  destruction.” 

The  only  “bulwark  of  civil  liberty”  which 
has  been  suspended  is  the  “  habeas  cor- 
pis”  But  it  is  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States,  not  the  Republican  party 
platform,  which  suspends  habeas  corpus  dur¬ 
ing  rebellion.  The  rebels,  therefore,  are  re¬ 
sponsible  for  the  suspension. 

“And  now  at  the  en  of  more  than  three  years  of  a 
war  unparalleled  In  modern  times  for  its  magnitude 
and  foy  its  barbarous  desolations, — after  more  than 
two  millions  of  men  have  been  called  into  the  field 
on  our  side  alone, — after  the  land  has  been  literally 
drenched  in  fraternal  blood,  and  wailings  and  lamen¬ 
tations  are  heard  in  every  corner  of  our  common 
country — the  hopes  of  the  Union,  our  cherished  ob¬ 
ject,  are  in  no  wise  improved.” 

This  is  grossly  false.  McClellan,  in  his 
Harrison  Landing  letter,  says,  that  were 
“the  armies  of  the  Confederate  States  thor¬ 
oughly  defeated, the  political  structure  which 
they  support  would  soon  cease  to  exist.” 

Gen.  Grant,  who  is  the  best  judge  of  the 
military  situation,  says,  that  with  100,000 
more  men ‘he  could  “thoroughly  defeat” 
the  rebel  armies.  According  to  Grant  and 
McClellan  we  not  only  have  improved  our 
hopes  of  Union,  but  have  it  fully  in  our 
power  to  realize  them  within  a  few  months 
by  a  moderate  reinforcement  of  our  armies. 

“  The  men  now  in  authority,  through  a  feud  which 
they  have  long  maintained  with  violent  and  unwise 
men  at  the  South,  because  of  a  blind  fanaticism 
about  an  institution  in  some  of  the  States  in  relation 
to  which  they  have  no  duties  to  perform  and  no  re¬ 
sponsibilities  to  bear,  are  utterly  incapable  of  adopt¬ 
ing  the  proper  means  to  rescue  our  country — our 
whole  country — from  its  present  lamentable  condi¬ 
tion.” 

We  had  one  duty  to  perform  and  one  re¬ 
sponsibility  to  bear  in  reference  to  slavery, 
viz.,  to  #ee  that  the  desperate  faction  of 
300,000'  slaveholders  at  the  South  should 
not  enforce  their  absurd  claim,  not  only  to 
rule  all  the  slaves  and  poor  white  trash  of 
the  South,  but  the  twenty  millions  of  north¬ 
ern  freemen,  in  reference  to  questions  such 
as  the  introduction  of  slavery  into  our  own 
States  and  into  free  Territories  upon  which 
the  Constitution  gave  us  the  right  to  vote 
and  decide. 

long’s  anti-draft  resolution. 

Mr.  Long,  of  Ohio,  offered  the  following 
resolution : 


|  “Resolved,  That  a  committee,  to  be  composed  of  one 
member  from  each  State  represented  in  this  Conven¬ 
tion,  to  be  selected  by  the  respective  delegatlpns 
thereof,  be  appointed  for  the  purpose  of  proceeding 
forthwith  to  the  city  of  Washington,  and,  on  behalf 
of  this  Convention  and  the  people,  to  ask  Vlr.  Lincoln 
to  suspend  the  operation  of  the  pending  draft  fur 
500,000  more  men  until  the  people  shall  have  an  op¬ 
portunity  through  the  ballot  box  in  a  free  election — 
uninfluenced  in  any  manner  by  military  orders  or, 
military  interference — of  deciding  the  question,  now 
fairly  presented  to  them,  of  war  or  peace,  at  the  ap¬ 
proaching  election  in  November;  and  that  said  com¬ 
mittee  be  and  they,  are  hereby  instructed  to  urge 
upon  Mr.  Lincoln,  by  whatever  argument  they  can 
employ,  to  stay  the  .flow  of  fraternal  blood,  at  least 
so  far  as  the  pending  draft  will  continue  to  augment 
it,  until  the  people,  the  source  of  all  power,  shall 
have  an  opportunity  of  expressing  their  will  for  or 
against  the  further  prosecution  of  the  war  in  the 
choice  of  candidates  for  the  Presidency? 

“  Which  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Resolu¬ 
tions,” 

The  Convention  having  previously  de¬ 
termined  to  nominate  Gen.  McClellan  ^br 
President,  who  is  the  father  of  the  idea  of 
filling  our  armies  by  conscription,  dared  not 
say  anything  in  their  platform  on  the  sub¬ 
ject.  The  above  resolution  was  therefore 
smothered,  and  the  question  dodged. 

MONROE  DOCTRINE  IGNORED. 

-  I  ,  ...  .  •  S-  \ 

Mr.  Aldrich,  of  Pennsylvania,  proposed 
the  following  resolution,  as  part  of  the  plat¬ 
form,  all  of  which  were  rejected  by  the  Com¬ 
mittee  on  Resolutions,  and  the  Convention  : 

“  Resolved,  That  we  cannot  view  with  indifference  the 
open  repudiation  and  vio  ation  of  the  Monroe  doctrine,  the 
establishment  of  an  empire  on  the  ruins  of  a  neighboring 
republic.” 

This  resolution  suffered  the  same  fate  of 
the  anti-draft  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  Long. 

The  following  extract  feebly  shows  how 
exclusively  Yallandigham  was  the  hero  of 
the  Convention.  He  could  not  even  rise 
from  his  seat  without  being  greeted  by  the 
shouts  of  his  peace  worshippers : 

“  Mr.  Vallimdigham  rose  and  was  greeted  with  loud  and 
pro’oi  ged  cheering  and  cries  ‘  Take  the  platform.’  He 
finally  stepped  to  the  platform,  and  merely  gave  notiee  that 
the  Committee  on  Resolutions  would  meet  in  toe  evening 
at  8  o’c'ock,  at  the  rooms  ot  the  New  Y'o>k  delegation  i'n 
the  Sherman  House.’  (Immense  cheering.) 

“  The  Convention  then  adjourned  until  10  o’clock  the 
following  morning.” 

We  quote  from  the  addresses  delivered 
during  the  evening  in  front  of  the  Sherman 
House. 

Mr.  M.  Y.  Johnson,  of  Illinois,  formerly 
of  Fort,  Lafayette,  is  happy  to  tell  them  that 
Yallandigham  is  making  the  platform. 

“  Mr.  Johnson  s  id  that  ihe  great  question  nt  the  present 
time  wa6  the  platform  that  was  to  be  made,  and  tie  was 
happy  to  tell  them  tp.<t  Hon.  Mr.  YallandLh;  m  and  other, 
representatives  are  now  engaged  in  m  king  a  pe  >ce  plat¬ 
form.  [Cheers.]  They  intended  to  place  a  p  ace  man  on 
that  piriform.  [Cheer*.]  They  ought  to  give  su.,  port  to 
Mr.  Valtandigham,  [cheers],  as  he  was  trying  to  protect 
and  get  back  their  righis  as  citizens  which  hud  been  taken 
awnv  by  the  present  corrupt  admini-tr-dion.  'I  he  admin¬ 
istration,  by  their  infernal  policy  to  put  the  negr  above  the 
white  man,  had  de  u^ed  the  country  with  blood  and  had 
sent  to  untimely  graves  ten  hundred  thousand  men.  • 
[Cheers.]” 

(What  a  monstrous  lie  !) 


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Hon.  W.  W.  O'Brien,  of  Peoria,  proposes 
to  try  Lincoln  and  hang  him. 

“Mr.  O’Brien  accused  the  admi;  btrution  of  attemptirg 
to  gae  the  tress,  putting  down  trial  by  ju  y,  «nd  suspend¬ 
ing  tbe  HebeaJ  t’rrpus.  But  when  Abr  Ham  l  inco’n 
retired  from  tbe  Pre  idential  chair  they  would  renew  trial 
by  jury,  and  try  him  for  the  offenses  he  had  comm-’tted 
against  the  laws  and  the  constitution.  He  would  be  pro¬ 
vided  with  counsel,  a:  d  protected  by  good  democratic 
lawyers,  (i  heers.l  Th<y  would  try  him  as  Charles  I. 
was  tried  in  Ingland.and  the  verd  ct  of  the  jury  might 
be  the  seme,  taut  he  hsd  been  found  guilty  of  b- in?  a 
tyrant  ardn  traitor.  Whatever  they  would  do  woo'd  be 
under  the  .aw,  and  if  th(  y  found  ;  ini  guilty  tiey  wou'd 
and  mm  to  carry  out  the  law.  ■((  heerg.) 

But  we  have  men  who  call  themselves  War  Dem¬ 
ocrats  ;  men  who,  for  the  sake  of  power,  place  or 
pelf,  went  into  the  business  of  murder,  and  soaking 
their  hands  in  fraternal  blood,  they  hold  them  up  to 
you.  all  dripping  in  gore,  and  say,  “Behold  my 
loyalty.”  They  are  not  democrats — they  are  aboli¬ 
tionists;  and  this  fall  we  will  bury  them  in  the  same 
grave  with  the  abolitionists,  and  damn  them  to  eter¬ 
nal  infamy.  [Cheers.]” 

A  FULL  BLOODED  COPPERHEAD. 

Hod.  Mr.  Benjamin  Allen,  of  New  York, 
thdught  nobody  to  blame  for  the  war  but 
the  abolitionists : 

“  Slavery  is  not  the  cause  of  the  war,  but  aboli¬ 
tionists  are  the  cause  of  it.  If  you  would  remove  the 
cause,  ydu  must  remove  the  abolitionists.  [Loud 
cheers.]  I  do  not  believe  that  there  is  a  secessionist 
per  86  in  the  whole  South.  But  they  would  all  come 
back  if  the  abolitionists  were  thrown  out  of  power. 
The  people  will  soon  rise,  and  if  they  cannot  put  Lin¬ 
coln  out  of  power  by  the  ballot  they  will  by  the  bullet. 
[Loud  cheers.]  ” 


Mr.  Van  Allen  would  not  fight  to  put 
down  the  rebellion,  but  is  ready  to  fight  the 
government. 

**  Mr.  John  J.  Van  .Allen,  of  New  York,  rext  gave  voice 
for  peace.  As  for  the  peace  sentiment,  he  procl  imed.  l  et 
her  run.  War  is  disunion.  ar  could  mver  rroduce 
peace.  It  w  a  impo-sible  to  snbjug-te  eiybt  millions  of 
p  ople.  and  it  ougnt  i.ot  to  be  doi  e  ii  it  could  1  e  dor  e. 
It  would  require  another  government  to  do  It.  1  et  us  have 
a  platform  clear  mi  this  issue.  It  is  the  or  ly  one  we  can 
all  tst at  d  upon— itis  the  on.y  one  tha;  can  take  us  out  of 
the  difficulties  that  surround  us.  But  it  wi  1  requi  e  some¬ 
thin?  more  than  talking.  He  would  r  ot  fight  in  this  war, 
but  if  necessary  to  assert  the  principles  of  me  cot  sutuiioo, 
he  was  a  fUhtb  g  m-  n.  It  seemed,  to  his  mind,  that 
the  people  of  this  comitry  had  been  mod  the  last  four 
years.  The  g  eat  mis  a^e  was  that  the  democracy  cid  not 
resist  the  war  front  the  begianiug.  She  would  retrace  her 
siei  s.  and  finally  triumph.  He  wc  uld  not  have  a  candidate 
WITH  ThK  tiMELh  OF  WAR  0.\  Hla  GARMENTS. 

MR.  VAN  ALLEx’s  ADMISSIONS. 


Another  report  contains  the  following  : 

“  I  do  not  want  a  man  nominated  whose  nomination  will 
me,  when  I  male  a  two  hour’s  speech,  u?  spend 
®ie  hour  and.  a  half  in  explanat'ons.  We  p  opose  to  go  to 
the  country  rn  definite  tn-rg-s ag^iest  thepa>ty  in  power. 
Gne  of  these  is  ‘  arbitrary  r-.ne^ts.’'  Ge,  .  B.  Mc»  lellan 
ordered  the  most  high  handed  o  ne  that  has  been  made  since 
the  war  beg*n.  V\  e  protose  to  go  to  the  country  on  the 
charge  of  suspension  of  the  writ  of  Habeas  Corpus.  1  his 
was  recommended  bv  Geo.  B.  McClel’an.  Ws  propose  to 
go  into  the  campaign  bearing  the  olive  branch  of  peace. 
Qeorg^  B..  Vci'lell-m  tec  mmemted  drafting  soldiers,  and 
ttiH  wears  Abe  Lincoln’s  shoulder  streps,  and  since  bei’  g 
relieved  from  active  service  to  which  he  wou.d  gladly 
return,  he  said  at  *  est  Point,  that  too  mnch  blood  lad 
been  abed,  too  much  treasure  expended,  to  stop  thie  war 
now.  With  him  we  can  make  no  point-on  the  disturbance 
of  the  social  relations  of  the  country.  With  him  v  g  irfnst 
crop  tbs  doctrlue  of  State  sovereignty.  For  two  years  he 
labored  to  coerce  States.  IN  FACT,  GENTLEMEN, 

THE  Nomination  op  george  b.  nicCLRLlaxV 
CLASHES  THE  ENTIRE-INDICTMENT  WHICH  WB 
HAVE  DRAW  N  AGAINaT  THE  ADMINISTRATION. 
fGreat  cheering.) 


Hon.  Mr.  Curtis,  of  New  York,  said : 

“  1  trust  the  dey  w.ll  never  come  when  the  scenes  wit- 
nes^od  in  the  commonwealth  of  Kentucky— a  State  ren¬ 
dered  glorious  by  the  associati  ns  of  the  pari— will  be 
enacted  on  this  soil — when  the  administration  will  endeavor 
by  force  of  arms  to  interfere  with  f!  e  fr-e  sentiment  and 
fr-e  will  of  the  people.  But.  if  that  day  sh  uld  come, 
before  Cod  and  pi  eight  of  'leaven,  I  would  invoke  the 
fid  of  hour  ter  revolution,  (fond  eb-err  g.)  A  people 
who  w- uld  Submit  to  that  degred  of  outrage  ard  tyranny 
which  destroys  the  cba’ter  of  them  bbertie9— (to  wit  to  be 
require  d  to  swear  allegiance  to,  tl>e  Ui-ited  States  before 
voting  in  a  ?tate  claimed  to  belong  to.the  conrederacy)  — 
are  rot  fitted  to  live  and  stand  up  as'rren.  tut  should  lie 
down  and'die  eg  s’ares.  (Cheers  arid  cries  rf  ‘  rood.’) 
I  warn  the  government  now  in  power  not  to  trao-ple  top 
far  upon  the  liberties  which  a  e  ’eft  to  ns  sejfcr  if  they  do, 
they  will  be  swept  b-  fore  a  Sto-rm  as  a  ship  is  swept  from 
the  sea  in  a  storm.  (Cheers.,” 

-John  Fuller,  of  Michigan,  characterizes 
the  war  for  the  Union,  as 

“This  unholy,  cruel,  and  abominable  struggle. 
[Loud  cheers  ]  Gentlemen,  are  you  willing  lomrer  to 
submit  to  this  state  of  things?  [Cries  of  “No.”] 
Our  land  is  already  wet  with  fraternal  blood.  Our 
press  has  been  shackled,  the  liberty  of  speech  has 
been  suppressed,  the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  has 
been  suspended,  and  he  who  dared  to  raise  his  voice 
against  these  arbitrary  and  unconstitutional  acts  has 
been  arrested  by  the  minions  of  the  government,  and 
incarcerated  in  dungeons  or  banished  from  his  native 
land.  [Cheers.]  Are  you  willing,  I  again  ask,  to 
bear  these  hardships  and  to  submit  to  this  tyranny 
and  oppression  ?  [Renewed  cries  of  “No,  no!”] 
Are  you  willing  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  the  perjured  wretch  who  ha3  violated  the 
oath  he  took  before  high  heaven  to  support  the  Con¬ 
stitution  and  preserve  the  liberties  of  the  people? 
[Cheers.  ] 

Mr.  G  C.  S  nderson,  says,  the  Union 
must  not  be  restored  by  war. 

“Fellow-citizens,  what  say  you?  Is  it  not  time 
that  this  infernal  war  should  stop?  [Voices  — 
“Yes.”]  Has  not  there  been  blood  enough  shed  ? 
Has  there  not  been  property  enough  destroyed? 
Have  we  net  all  been  bound,  hand  and  foot.,  to  the 
abolition  car,  »hat  is  ro'ling  .oveT  our  necks  like  the 
wheels  of  another  Juggernaut?  We  all  love  our 
country.  There  is  nothing  would  rejoice  us  more 
than  to  see  the  stars  and  stripes,  the  glorious  emblem 
of  our  Union,  re-established  all  over  this  country, 
but  it  ought  to  be  done  by  concession  and  compro¬ 
mise.  [Applause.  A  voice. —  “That  is  tie  doc¬ 
trine.”]  It  must  not  be  by  a  further  shedding  of 
blood.  It  cannot  be.  [A  voice:  “  It  will  never  be 
done  by  blood.”]  We  must  have  peace.  Peace  is 
our  motive;  nothing  but  peace.  If  the  Southern 
Confederacy,  by  any  possibility,  be  subjugated  by 
this  abolition  administration,  the  next  thing  they 
would  turn  their  bayonets  on  the  free  men  of  the 
North  and  trample  you  in  the  dust.” 

Hou.  James  H.  Birch,  of  Missouri,  thinks 
re  union  may  be  impossible  even  by  peace 
measures. 

“  His  hopes  and  prayers  were  that  such  a  union 
might  even  yet  be  practicable,  but  if  it  be  found  to  be 
otherwise  —  if  the  conflict  of  interest  or  of  passion 
has  been  rendered  really  “  irrepressible  ”  by  the 
iniquities  of  the  party  in  power,  and  it  shall  be  so 
adjudged  by  the  same  c<  mpetent  authority  which 
ordained  our  present  Constitution,  let  not  the  blame 
of  it  be  attached  to  the  democratic  party.  But  if 
the  country  is  doomed  to  become  permanently  di* 
v  ded,  it  will  be  recorded  in  history  that  it  was  not 
the  fault,  of  the  democracy,  whether  in  the  inception 
or  the  prosecution  of  the  measures  which  have  [ed 
and  are  yet  leading  to  so  saddening  an  alternative.,” 

That’s  cool,  after  the  democracy  have 
permanently  destroyed  the  Union,  they  are 
not  to  he  held  responsible  for  it,  but  rather 
to  be  glorified  for  the  deed  ! 


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SPEECH  OF  CHAUNCEY  BURR. 

C.  ChaunCey  Burr,  a  prominent  New 
York  Democrat,  editor  of  “The  Old  Guard,”  j 
prayed  God  that  the  rebels  might  never  be 
subdued.”  f  ; 

“In  addressing  the  audience  Mr.  Burr  spoke  sub¬ 
stantially  as  follows:  He  did  not  expect  td  make  a 
speech  as  the  time  for  speech-making  was  past.  Ar¬ 
gument  was  useless,  and  the  time  for  action  had 
come.  He  would  speak  with  that  freedom  which  had 
been  the  wopt  of  the  people  of  America  for  the  last 
three  years.  Puring  that  time,  spies  and  informers 
had  been  on  the  tracks  of  the  people,  add,  in  point 
of  fact,  we  had  lived  under  a  despot  sm  worse  than 
that  of  Austria.  The  people  had  submitted  to  that 
despotism,  not  because  of  a  want  off  courage, 
bravery  or  pluck,  but  because  they  were  a  law-and.  ' 
order  people  They  had  patiently  waited  for  a 
change  in  the  policies  of  Lincoln’s  administration, 
but  it  had  been  denied  them  ;  and  for  nearly  four 
years  they  had  submitted  to  these  acts  of  desnotisra. 
And  it  was  a  wonder  that  they  had  a  Cabinet  and 
men  who  carried  out  the  infamous  orders  of  the 
gorilla  tyrant  that  usurped  the  Presidential  chair.  In 
New  Jersey  they  had  shifted  the  responsibility  of 
these  despotic  acts  to  the  shoulders  of  the  abolition¬ 
ists,  and  more  than  one  Provost  Marshal, had  a  hole 
made  through  his  head.  In  that  State,  it  was  a  diffi¬ 
cult  matter  at  one  time  to  find  an  abolitionist  who 
would  accept  such  a  position,  and  the  administration 
had  tried  to  bribe  democrats,  but,  thank  God,  they 
had  failed.  But  they  had  well  nigh  reached  the  end 
of  their  reign  of  despotism.  They  could  not  and 
should  not  go  any  further.  They  were  about  to  be  j 
sWept  from  the  land  by  an  indignant  people.  They 
talked  about  a  rebellion  down  South,  but  a  greater 
rebellion  had  been  in  progress  in  the  North. 

The  question  as  to  what  should  be  done  with  those 
States  had  been  asked  a  hundred  times  since  he  came  to 
Chicago.  He  could  not  answer  the  question.  Those 
States  did  not  belong  to  him.  They  did  not  belong  to 
Lincoln.  We  bad  no  right  to  burn  their  wheat  fields, 
steal  their  pianos,  spoons  or  jewelry.  Mr.  Lincoln 
had  stolen  a  good  many  thousand  negroes,  but  for 
every  negro  he  had  thus  stolen,  he  had  stolen  ten 
thousand  spoons.  It  had  been  said  that,  if  the  South 
would  lay  down  their  arms,  they  would  be  received 
again  into  the  Union.  The  South  could  not  honora¬ 
bly  lay  down  her  arms,  for  she  was  fighting  for  her 
hoioor. 

Two  millions  of  men  had  been  sent  down  to  the 
slaughter  pens  of  the  South,  and  the  army  of  Lincoln 
could  not  again  be  filled,  neither  by  enlistments  or 
conscription.  If  he  ever  uttered  a  prayer,  it  was 
that  not  one  of  the  States  of  the  Union  should  be 
conquered  and  subjugated.  They  bad  tried  for 
three  years  to  whip  the  seceding  States  back  into  the 
Union,  but,  from  the  way  the  war  had  been  con¬ 
ducted,  they  were  more  likely  to  whip  us. 

W  e  were  told  that  we  would  conquer  the  rebellious 
States.  They  could  not  be  conquered,  and  he  prayed 
God  that  they  never  might  be;  The  democratic 
party  was  for  peace.  Their  representatives  had 
come  to  Chicago  to  nominate  a  candidate  for  the 
Presidency.  He  would  be  nominated  on  a  peace 
platform,  and  they  could  not  succeed  on  any  other. 
If  any  other  platform  was  adopted  they  deserved  to 
be  defeated.” 

The  eloquent  speaker  was  frequently  and  vocifer¬ 
ously  applauded  during  his  speech  of  half  an  hour  or 
mare. 

The  Chicago  Times,  says  of  the  following 
speech  of  Henry  Clay  Dean  : 

“His  speech  was  one  of  peculiar  bitterness, 
abounding  with  stubborn,  irresistible,' incontrovertible ' 
facts.  It  imparted  enthusiasm  to  the  audience,  and 
blistered  the  souls  of  the  republicans  whc?  had  the 
courage  to  listen  to  it  to  the  end  ”  >  ' 

REMARKS  BY  HENRY  CLAY  DEAN. 

He  said  in  the  presence  of  the  face  of  Camp  Douglas 
and  all  the  satraps  of  Lincoln,  that  the  American 


people  were  ruled  by  felons.  Lincoln  had  never 
turned  a  dishonest  man  out  of  office  or  kept  an  honest 
one  in.  [A  voice — 4  What  have  you  to  say  of  Jeff 
Davis?  "]  I  have  nothing  to  say  about  him.  Lincoln 
is  engaged  in  a  controversy  with  him,  and  I  never 
interfere  between  black  dogs.  [At  this  point  in  the 
speaker’s  remarks,  an  abolition  rowdy  shouted  *  Dry 
up,  you  old  tory,’  when  there  was  a  cry  to  put  him 
out.  Mr.  Dean  resumed:}  For  over  three  years 
Lincoln  had  been  calling  for  men,  and  they  had  been 
given.  But  with  all  the  vast  armies  placed  at  his 
command,  he  had  failed  "!  failed  !  /  failed  !  !  I 
FAILED  !  !  !  !  Such  a  failure  had  never  been  known. 
Such  destruction  of  human  life  had  never  been 
known  since  the  destruction  of  Sennacherib  by  th« 
breath  of  the  Almighty.  And  still  the  monster 
usurper  wanted  more  men  for  his  slaughter  pens. 
[Loud  cri->8  of  4  he  shan’t  have  more.’]  The  careful 
husbandman,  in  deadening  the  forest  was  always 
careful  in  preserving  the  young  growth  of  timber, 
and  in  selecting  his  swine  for  the  slaughter,  he  pre¬ 
served  the  younger  ones  for  future  use.  But  the 
tyrant  and  despot  who  ruled  this  people  to  destruction 
paid  no  regard  to  age  or  condition.  He  desired  to 
double  the  widowhood  and  duplicate  the  orphans. 
He  blushed  that  such  a  felon  should  Occupy  the 
highest  place  in  the  gift  of  the  people.  Perjury  and 
larceny  were  written  over  him  as  often  as  was  4  one 
dollar’  on  the  one  dollar  bills  of  the  Bank  of  the 
State  of  Indiana.  [Criesof  the  4  old  villain.’]  The 
democracy  were  for  peace.  The  people  were  for 
peace,  but  the  contractors,  and  army  officers  and 
satraps  of  the  administration  wanted  it  not  .  [Great 
applause.]  Ever  since  the  usurper,  traitor,  and 
tyrant  had  occupied  the  Presidential  chair,  the  repub¬ 
lican  party  had  shouted  war  to  the  knife,  anti  the 
knife  to  the  hilt.  Blood  had  flowed  in  torrents,  and 
yet  the  thirst  of  the  old  monster  was  not  quenched. 
His  cry  was  for  more  blood. 

TUESDAY,  August  80. 

Horatio  Seymour  having  taken  h;s  seafras 
permanent  chairman,  addressed  the  Con¬ 
vention  in  language  more  guarded  than  that 
of  many  of  the  street  speakers,  but  agreeing 
with  them  in  venomous  hate  of  the  North, 
laying  the  blame  of  the  war  upon  Northern 
Christianity,  under  the  slang  term,  “fanat¬ 
icism,”  and  upon  Mr.  Lincoln  as  the  repre¬ 
sentative  of  the  Northern  people,  and  hav- 
ing.no  word  of  fault  to  find  with  secession, 
rebellion,  the  rebel  army,  or  the  Confede¬ 
rate  Government.  He  said  : 

They  did  not  intend  to  destroy  our  country  —  they  did 
not  mean  to  break  down  its  institutions.  But  unhappify 
they  were  influenced  by  sectional  prejudices,  by  fanati¬ 
cism,  by  bigotry,  and  by  intolerance,  and  we  hove  found 
in  the  course  of  the  list  four  years  that-their  animating 
sentiments  have  overruled  their  declarations  and  their 
promises,  and  swept  them  on  step  by  step,  until  they 
have  been  carried  on  to  actions  Prom  which  at  the  outsat 
they  would  have  shrunk  away  with  horror.  Even  noyj, 
when  war  has  desolated  onr  land,  has  laid  It'S  heavy  bun- 
thens  upon  labor,  when  h  i‘0krnptey  and  ruin  overh  mg  us, 
they  will  not  have  Union  except  upon  conditions  unknown 
to  our  Constitution  ;  they  will  not  let  the  shedding  of 
blood  cease,  even  for  a  little  t  me,  to  see  if  Christian 
charity  or  the  wisdom  of  statesmanship  may  not  work  out 
a  method  to  save  onr  country.  Nay,  more  than  this,  they 
will  not  listen  to  a  proposal  for  peace  which  does  not  offar 
that  which  this  government  has  no  right  to  ask.” 

Gov.  Seymour,  in  the  last  remark,  indi¬ 
cates  his  belief  that  rebellion  is  no  crime, 
involves  no  forfeiture  of  life  or  property 
and  fhht  the  “  rights  ”  of  rebels  are*  ft) 
slaughter  the  defenders  of  the  Union  as 
long  as  tbev  can,  and  when  whipped,  t.o  re¬ 
sume  their  places  by  the  side  of  faithful, 
loyal  men,  without  loss  or  punishment. 


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COWARDLY  SURRENDER  TO  THE  REBELS. 

The  following  is  the  chief  plank  in  the 
platform  adopted.  It  is  a  demand  for  a 
cowardly  and  dishonorable  surrender  to  the 
rebels.  It  is  a  false  arid  shameful  admission 
that  the  “North”  is  whipped;  that  the 
struggle  to  save  the  Union  is  a  failure  ;  that 
all  the  bloodshed,  and  money  spent,  must 
go  for  nought,  and  that  the  rebels  shall  dic¬ 
tate  their  own  terms  of  peace.  Here  is  the 
tory  plank : 

“  Resolved,  That  this  Convention  does  explicity  dec'are, 
as  the  sense  of  the  American  people,  that  alter  four  years 
(not  till  May  next,)  of  failure  to  restore  the  Unioh  by  the 
experiment  of  war,  during  winch,  under  tne  pretence  of  a 
military  necessity,  or  war  power  higher  than  the  Consti¬ 
tution,  the  Constitution  itself  has  been  disregarded  in 
©very  part,  (a  lie.)  and  public  liberty  and  private  right 
alike  trodden  down,  (another  lie,)  and  the  material  pros¬ 
perity  of  the  cobntry  essentially  impaired,— justice,  hu¬ 
manity.  liberty,  and  the  lUblio  weff.ire  demand  that  4*L 
mediate  efforts  be  made  for  a  <;e.->8atljN 

OF  HORTlLlI  IES,  with  a  view  to  an  ultimate  conven¬ 
tion  o'  the  Mates,  or  other  peaceable  means,  to  the  end 
that  at  the  earliest  ptacticable  moment,  peace  may  be  re 
8  to  rod  on  the  basis  of  the  Federal  Mates.’’ 

On  this  pusillanimous  platform  Gen. 
George  B.  McClellan  was  placed  as  the 
Presidential  standard-bearer  of  the  “peace 
sneaks.” 

We  commend  to  democrats  and  Republi¬ 
cans  alike,  the  following  extract  from  Mc¬ 
Clellan’s  late  West  Point  oration,  which  it 
will  be  perceived  is  in  direct  conflict  with 
the  National  Platform  of  his  party  : 

‘‘  To  secure  ourselves  from  the  fate  of  the  divided  Re¬ 
publics  of  Italy  and  South  America,  to  preserve  our  gov- 
trun  ent  from  destruction,  to  enforce  its  Just  power  aud 

ihws,  to  maintain  ouk  very  existence  as  a 

N  ATlON — these  were  the  causes  which  impelled  us  to 
draw  the  sword.  Rebellion  agaiust  a  government  like 
o«ra.  which  contains  the  means  of  self-adjustment,  and  a 
pacific  remedy  for  evils, should  never  be  confounded  with 
revolution  against  dtspotic  power,  which  refuses  redress 
of  wrougs.  Such  a  rebellion  cauuot  be  justified  uppn  eth¬ 
ical grounds;  AND  THE  ONLY  ALTERNATIVES  FOR 
OUK  CHOICE  ARE  ITS  SUPPRESSION  OR  THE 
DB.-'TRUCrioN  OF  OUR  NATION  A>.I  I  Y.  At  such  a 
time  as  this,  aud  in  such  a  struggle,  POLITICAL  PaR- 
TiZANSHiP  FROULD  BE  mERGED  IN  A  TRUE 
AND  BKAVE  PATRIOTISM,  which  thinksonlyof  the 
good  of  the  whole  country.  It  was  in  this  cause,  and  with 
these  motives  that  so  many  of  our  comrades  have  given 
their  lives;  AND  TO  THIS  WE  ARE  ALL  PERSON¬ 
ALLY  PLEDGED  IN  >  LL  HONOR  AND  FIDELI¬ 
TY.  Shall  such  devotion  as  that  of  OUR  DEAD  COM¬ 
RADES  BE  OF'  NO  aVaIL?  Shall  it  be  said  in  after 
ages  that  we  lacked,  the  vigor  TO  COMPLETE  THE 
WORK.  THI  S  REGUN  :  tuat,  after  all  these  noble  lives, 
freely  given,  WE  HESIl’ATE.r  AND  FAILED  TO 
KEEP  STRAIGHT  ON  UNTIL  OfJR  LAND  WAS 
8AVED?" 

SPEECH  OF  HARRIS,  OF  MARYLAND. 

The  name  of  Gen.  McClellan  having  been 
placed  in  nomination  before  the  Convention, 
and  before  the  vote  was  taken,  Mr.  Harris, 
member  of  Congress  from  Maryland,  and  a 
delegate  to  the  Convention,  arose  and  said : 
(Quoted  from  the  Chicago  Times). 

"  We  democrats  of  Maryland  have  been  oppressed,  as 
you  know.  All  onr  rights  have  beeD  trampled  upon,  and 
the  stTong  arm  of  the  military  has  been  over  us  as  it  rests 
upon  ns  now,  as  it  was  instituted  by  your  nominee,  Gen. 
McClellan.  (Confusion,  applause  and  fusses,  maiDly  from 
the  galleries  )  Admit  the  fact  that  all  our  liberties  and 
Tights  have  been  destroyed,  and  I  ask  you,  in  the  name  of 
common  sense,  in  the  name  of  justice,  in  the  name  of  hon¬ 
or,  will  you  reward  the  man  who  struck  the  first  blow  ? 
(Applause  and  hisses.)  From  the  indications  I  see  here 
to-day,  I  have  reason  to  fear  that  the  man  who  has  been 
in  the  front  of  this  usurpation,  (Gen,  Met  le flan.)  Will  be 
the  successful  candidate." 


GEN.  MCCLELLAN  THE  FIRST  USURPER. 

“  I  claim  it  as  a  right  to  state  that  one  of  the  men 
whom  you  have  nominated,  is  a  tyrant.  [Hisses 
and  cheers.]  Gen.  McClellan  was  the  very  first  man 
who  inaugurated  the  system  of  usurping  State  right*. 
[Uproar.]  This  I  can  prove,  and  I  pledge  rnystlf,  if 
you  will  hear  rae,  to  prove  every  charge  in  the  indict¬ 
ment  And  it  is  the  duty  of  a  jury,  when  a  charge  is 
made  which  is  proven,  to  convict  and  not  reward  the 
offender.  Maryland  has  been  cruelly  trampled  upon 
by  this  man,  and  I  cannot  consent,  as  a  delegate  from 
that  State,  to  allow  his  nomination  to  go  unopposed. 
What  you  ask  me  10  do  is,  in  reality,  to  support  the 
man  who  stabbed  my  own  mother ;  and  I  for  one  — 
and  I  believe  I  speak  for  the  whole  delegation  from 
Maryland  —  will  never  do  it.  We  will  never,  never 
consent  that  the  State  of  Maryland  shall  be  so  dis¬ 
honored.  What,  is  it  a  fact  that  you  care  nothing 
for  the  dishonor  of  a  sovereign  Slate?  Is  it  really 
the  case  that  you  can  consent  that  the  man  who 
overthrew  liberty  and  crushed  underfoot  the  free  In¬ 
stitutions  of  a  State,  shall  receive  reward  instead  of 
punishment  for  bis  tyranny?  In  old  times,  it  was 
the  doctrine  that  an  injury  done  to  one  State,  was  an 
;  injury  inflicted  on  all ;  and,  instead  of  rewarding  the 
perpetrator  of  the  injury,  each  State  should  come 
forward  to  resent  it.  Now  you  propose  a  reward  in 
i  the  shape  of  Presidential  honors  io  the  man  who  first 
set  the  iron  heel  of  despoti  m  upon  my  State.” — Chi¬ 
cago  Times  report. 

Senator  Harris  then  read  from  a  news¬ 
paper,  the  following  order  of  Gen.  McClel¬ 
lan,  dated  Sept.  12,  18b  1,  for  the 

ARREST  OF  THE  MARYLAND  LEGISLATURE. 

“Maj.  Gen.  N.  P.  Banks,  U.  S.  A. 

General  —  After  a  full  consultation  with  the  Presi- 
:  dent,  Secretaries  of  State,  War,  etc.,  it  has  been  de- 
|  cided  to  effect  the  operation  proposed  for  the  17th. 
Arrangements  have  been  made  to  have  a  government 
steamer  at  Annapolis  to  receive  the  prisoners  and 
carry  them  to  their  destination. 

Some  four  or  five  of  the  chief  men  in  the  affair  are 
to  be  arrested  to-day.  When  they  meet  on  the  17th, 
you  will  have  everything  prepared  to  arrest  the  whole 
|  party,  and  be  sure  that  none  escape. 

It  is  understood  that  you  will  arrange  with  Gen. 
Dix  and  Gov.  Seward,  the  modus  operandi.  It 
j  has  been  intimated  to  me  that  the  meeting  might 
take  place  on  the  14th  ;  please  be  prepared.  Iwould 
be  glad  to  have  you  advise  me  frequently  of  your  ar¬ 
rangements  in  regard  to  this,  very  important  matter. 

If  it  is  successfully  carried  out,  it  will  go  far  to¬ 
wards  breaking  the  back- bone  of  the  rebellion.  It 
will  pmbably  be  well  to  baye  a  special  train  quietly 
prepared  to  take  the  prisoners  to  Annapolis. 

I  leave  this  exceedingly  important  affair  to  your 
tact  and  discretion — the  absolute  necessity  of  secrecy 
and  suceess. 

With  the  highest  regard,  I  am,  my  dear  General, 
your  sincere  friend, 

(Signed)  GEORGE  B.  McCLELLAN, 

Maj.  Gen.  U.  S.  A.” 

(Continued  from  Chicago  Tribune  Report.) 

“  Again  Mr.  Harris  spoke.  I  am  here  for  the  pur- 
!  pose  of  presenting  to  the  Convention,  the  character 
of  the  man  whom  you  have  nominated,  and  I  wish 
!  you  to  hear  his  character  and  to  know  him  as  well 
as  I  do.  [Cheers.]  [Three  cheers  for  Mac.  being 
|  called  for,  they  were  given  amidst  a  whirlwind  of 
hisses.]  Well,  sir,  that  is  a  document  by  which 
i  George  B.  McClellan  took  up  and  arrested  the  legis¬ 
lature  of  Maryland,  a  sovereign  State,  met  in  order 
to  thwart  the  tyranny  and  oppression  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  [Cries  of  ‘  Show  him  up,  show  him  up/ 

4  go  on,  go  on,’]  to  subvert  and  overturn  those  things 
|  that,  are  the  foundation  and  basis  ot  our  country. 

:  Where  is  the  man  who  sympathizes  with  Maryland, 

I  who  could  go  to  the  polls  and  vote  for  such  a  man? 

Why,  Mr.  President,  how  long  do  you  suppose  that 
I  these  sons  and  representatives  of  Maryland  were 


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imprisoned  in  the  bastiles  of  the  United  States? 
For  sixteen  months  they  were'  separated  from 
their  families,  torn  from  their  homes,  kept  from  their 
business,  and  when  at  last  their  bars  and  bonds  were 
loose,  it  was  in  spite  of  the  acts  of  him  by 
whom  they  were  placed  there,  of  him, 
that  devil  McClellan .  [Great  sensation,  hisses 
and  considerable  cheering.]  Well,  sir,  I  look  upon 
it  that  it.  not  only  struck  at  the  liberties  of  Maryland 
and  the  freedom  of  the  people,  but  at  the  existence 
of  the  legislature  of  our  State,  and  all  the  charges  I 
can  make  against  Lincoln  and  his  administration,  I 
can  make  against  this  man  McClellan.  [Cheers.] 

Another  count  in  the  indictment,  there  is  the  letter 
of  Oct.  29,  1861. 

The  speaker  was  here  interrupted  by  so  much  dis¬ 
order  and  rowdyism,  that  he  was  forced  to  suspend 
the  reading  of  the  letter  for  several  minutes,  the 
breach  of  order  belDg  so  manifestly  beyond  reason. 

Although  the  Convention  had  j list  adopt¬ 
ed  a  platform  claiming  “  freedom  of  speech” 
as  one  of  its  principles,  the  effort  to  sup¬ 
press  what  Mr.  Harris  bad  to  3ay,  was  so 
fierce  and  boisterous,  that  it  was  not  until 
he  had  knocked  down  one  of  the  delegates 
from  New  York,  and  given  distinct  indica* 
tions  that  he  was  armed  anil  ready  for  a 
“  free  fight,”  after  the  manner  of  the  chival¬ 
ry,  that  he  could  secure  a  hearing.  He  pro¬ 
ceeded  : 

GEN.  MCCLELLAN  INTERFERES  WITH  ELECTIONS 

IN  MARYLAND,  AND  SUSPENDS  THE  HABEAS 

CORPUS. 

“  I  now  proceed  to  another  cotmt  in  the  indictment.  On 
October  29, 1801,  he  thus  wiote  to  General  Banks  :  „ 

‘  GEN  EKAL  :  There  is  an  apprehension  amongst  Union 
citizens  ip  many  parts  of  Maryland  of  attempted  interfer¬ 
ence  in  the  e  ection  to  take  place  on  the  (Jth  or  Novemb  r 
next.  In  order  to  prevent  this,  the  Major  General  com¬ 
manding— (and  who,  gentlemen,  was  the  Major  General 
coimminding  but  George  B.  Alct  lellau  ?)  Jhe  Major 
General  commanding  directs  you  to  send  a  sufficient  de- 
tachnir  at  to  protect  Union  vorerx,  auit  to  see  tout  nothing 
is  ui.Ou  ed  to  interfere  with  their  rights  as  voters,  ’ 

_  (Here  the  speaker  was  inte'rrUptsd  with  cries  of  *  That’s 
right,’ 4  Good  I  good  I  ’  while  vociferous  cheers  were  given 
fbi  Gen.  McClellan  ) 

‘Mr.  iiARtUc;  i  would  have  concluded  leng  ago,  Mr. 
President,  except  for  the  iurerruptions  that  nave  been 
made, bv  this  assembly  itself ;  and,  certainly,  ypu  cannot 
take  advantage  of  your  own  wrong,  anti  prevent  me  pro¬ 
ceeding.  ( i  be  speaker  then  read  the  remainder  of  the 
letter,  which  authorized  Gen.  Banks,  in  order  to  prevent 
these  adeged  treasonable  deHgns,  to  4  SUSPEND  THE 
WRIT  OF  HABEAS  CORPUS’)  Now,  sir.  who  feared 
the  disunionists  ol  Maryland  would  ever  interfere  with 
the  Unionists  ?  With  the  power  in,  the  hands  of  the  admin¬ 
istration,  with  the  power  in  the  hands  of  (he  Governor  of 
Maryland,  where  in  the  name  of  God  was'itto  be  supposed, 
except  in  the  mind  of  some hypoc’ite,  that  i"  was  necessary 
for  some  military  force  to  come  iuto  the  State  and  suspend 
that  great  writ,  thsp  Habeas  Corpus  ?  (Cheers.)  And  why 
were  these  ‘  uisnnionists’  or  Maryland,  allowed,  to  go  at 
large  till  the  day.of  e, ection  ;  said  he,  you  must  arrest 
them  before  going  to  the  polls  and  you  may  discharge  them 
after  the  elec  (ion.  (Cheats.)  Why  was  this  done  ?  Why, 
if  there. was  danger  to  the  country  in  allowing  these  men 
to  remain  at  large,  were  they  not' arrested  til,  the  day  of 
election  in  the  State,  by  order  of  this  Gen.  McC.ellen. 
Those  things  that  we  have  charged  so  frequently  against 
Abraham  Lincoln,  HE,  GEORGE  B.  McC'LEJLLAN,  HAS 
BEEN  GUlTY  OF  DImsELF.  (Cheers  and  hisses.) 
Sir, he  declares  that,  under;th«  plea  of  military  necessity — 
that  tyrant’s  plea  of  military  necessity — Abraham  Iiucoln 
ha*  the  power  of  abolishing  one  of  the  institutions  of  .Mary¬ 
land,  Missouri, 'and  Kentucky;  THEPOWEitOF  ABOl>- 
ISHIAG  THE  INSTITUTION  OF  SLAVERY— a  great 
right  that  you  consider  yourselves  bound  to  protect  and  to 
protect  Mary, nnd,  Missouri  and  Kentucky,  in  protecting, 
(See  hjs/Hariison  Landing  letter  to  the  President.)  Now, 
what  have  jou  to  say  to  this  charge  against  George  B. 
McClellan.,  (Cheers  and  hisses.) 

‘  You  have  to  meet  them  one  Way  or  another,  for  they 
will  be  made  by  our  opponents,  and  it  Is  better  to  hear 
them  from  a  democrat  before  the  canvass  commences 
(*  beers  )  What,,  then,  have  you  to  say  in  his  lavor  ? 
Why  ag  a  military  man,  HAb  re  BEEN  DEFEATED 
EVERYWHERE  ?  (Cries  of  “No  no,”  “  Yes,  yes,”  and 
cheers.)  The  siege  of  Richmond  was  not,  I  think,  a  sno- 


cess  ;  (ironically,)  the  battli,  of  Antietam  wag  not  a  suc¬ 
cess,  and  in  him  as  a  military  leader  you  have  NOTHING 
W  HATEVER  TO  BRAG  OF,  while  yon  hate  co  rnbind 
with  MILITARY  INCAPACITY  Ti  E  FACT  THAT 
HE  HAS  INTERFERED  WITH  AND  DESTROYED 
THE  CIVIL  RIGHTS  OF  THE  PEOPLE,  if  OtfrU 
McC'ellsn,  when  Abraham  Lincoln  t  Id  him  to  arrest  thie 
legislature  of  MaryAnd.  had  ssid  to  him.  ‘  I  have  received 
a  comnjhsion  ns  commander  at  your  band*-*-you  can  take 
it  back  before  1  become  a  tyrant,”  he  would  have  stjod 
before  the  wor'd  as  a  MAN  ;  but  inasmuch  Ashe  received 
and  acGdjUpon  instructions  which  struck  a  blow  at  civil 
libeity  he  became  the  mere  tool  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

A  MILD  CONSERVATIVE  SPEECH. 

Capt.  Kooutz,  of  Pitt-burgh,  one  of  the 
leaders  of  the  democratic  party,  aod  an 
ardent  McOlellanite,  thus  reflected  the  sen¬ 
timents  of  his  “  democratic  ”  brethren.  The 
speech  is  an  evidence  that  free  speech  has 
been  suppressed  by  Lincoln  : 

Lincoln  was  now  played  out ;  the  opposition  to  him 
was  going  to  be  bold  and  powerful,  there  must  be  no 
underhand  work,  and  if  democrats  catch  Lincoln’s 
b — y  satrap  spies  among  them,  they  must  cut  their 

d - -d  throats,  that’s  all.  [Applause.]  It  is  the 

duty  of  every  American  to  vote  for  a  peace  candi¬ 
date.  For  seventy  years  the  democratic  party  safel 
guided  the  ship  of  state  through  all  dangers;  buY 
now,  in  less  than  three  years,  the  shoddy  despotismt 
has  deluged  the,  country  with  blood,  destroyed  all 
national  institutions,  broken  up  the  home  circle,  and 
changed  the  most  glorious  country  under  the  sun  into 
a  garden  of  discord,  where  brother  lifts  up  his  hand 
to  slay  brother.  [Applause.]  Shall  this  state  of.  afr 
fairs  Iasi?  [‘No,  no.’]  Shall  more  wives  be  made 
widows,  and  more  children  fatherless,  and  greater 
hate  be  stirred  up  between  children  of  the  same  glo¬ 
rious  constitution?  If  not,  vve  must  put  our  foot 
upon  the  tyrant’s  neck,  and  destroy  it.  The  demo¬ 
cratic  government  must  be  raised  to  power,  and  Lin¬ 
coln,  with  his  Cabinet  of  rogues,  thieves  and  spies,  be 
driven  to  destruction.  What  shall  we  do  with  him  ? 
[A  voice — “Send  him  here,  and  I’ll  make  a  coffin  for 
him,  d — n  him.”]  Yes,  d— n  him  and  his  miserable 
followers.  I  should  like  to  see  the  noble  George  B. 
McClellan  as  President,  [cheers,]  and  that  great 
democrat,  Horatio  Seymour,  should  occupy  the  posi¬ 
tion  of  Secretary  of  State.  In  the  Cabinet  I  would 
see  the  name  of  Yoorhees,  and  the  brilliant  galaxy  of 
gentlemen  statesmen  who  cluster  round  the  demo¬ 
cratic  banner.  Such  a  government  would  bring 
peace  to  the  country,  and  would  tend  greatly  to  ren¬ 
der  negative  the  evils  of  the  ^present  corrupt  admin¬ 
istration. 

WILLING  TO  ACKNOWLEDGE  SECESSION. 

Rev.  Prof.  Johnston,  of  Missouri,  went  a 
step  further.  If  he  could’nt  make  peace  any 
other  way,  he  was  very  willing  to  acknowl¬ 
edge  secession.  He  said :  '  i  ,  , 

We  have  already  sacrificed  one  million  five  hundred 
thousand  men  in  this  deadly  strife.  I  was  in  favor, 
in  the  beginning  pf  the  war,  of  its  vigorous  prosecu¬ 
tion.  But  it  has  no)y  become  a  war  for  crushing  the 
white  man,  and  raisiagYhe  negro.  Every  negro  that 
we  have  set  free  has  cost  us  the  life  of  a  white  man, 
and  five,  thousand  dollars  besides.  I  regret  that 
slavery  exists.  But  .because  it  does  exist,  don’t  let 
us  make  fools  of  ourselves.  I  want  to  see  peace  with 
the  rights  of  all  the  citizens  of  this  land  restored. 
Is  that  right  ?  [A  voice :  Y ea  we  want  a  peace  man 
for  President.  Down  with  war  men, "”] 

If  it  shall  be  necessary  in  the  settlement  of  our 
difficulties  to  allow  a  few  start  to  form  a  ovnstellor 
iionty  themselves ,  I  thlDk  we  can  be  just  as  safe, 
just  as  well  protected,  and  just  as  free  and  happy 
under  a  Union  of  Republics  as  we  have  been  under 
a  Union  of  States.  I  want  tp  see  this  whole  contin¬ 
ent  bound  together  by  a  grand  union  of  Republics. 

“  No  pent  up  Utica  contracts  our  powers, 

But  the  whole  boundless  Continent  is  ours.” 


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And  we  will  have  it,  and  will  have  peace  and  har¬ 
mony  and  self  government  with  it.  [Cheers.] 

ALEXANDER  LONG,  OF  OHIO,  DENOUNCES 
MCCLELLAN 

As  a  coorcionist,  a  usurper,  and  an  emanci¬ 
pationist,  unworthy  the  support  of  the  dem¬ 
ocratic  party. 

“  Mr.  Long,  a  member  of  Congress  from  Ohio  :  I 
have  but  a  few  words  to  say,  and  X  propose  to  say 
them  ;  and  I  am  not  afraid  to  speak  what  I  think, 
even  in  the  face  of  gentlemen  who  don’t  want  to 
hear.  I  have  faced  the  music  before,  and  I  am 
wiiling  to  do  it  here. 

Now,  gentlemen  of  the  convention,  what  have  we 
complained  of  for  the  last  three  or  four  years  ?  What 
has  been  the  burden  of  our  complaint  against  Mr. 
Lincoln  and  his  administration?  He  has  abridged 
the  freedom  of  speech ;  he  has  arbitrarily  arrested 
citizens  and  confined  them  in  Bastiles,  and  he  has 
interfered  with  the  freedom  of  elections.  What  have 
you  proposed  in  these  resolutions?  You  have,  to  a 
certain  extent,  vindicated  the  freedom  of  speech  ; 
you  have  condemned  arbitrary  arrests  and  denounced 
interference  with  the  freedom  of  elections;  and  yet 
you  propose  in  George  B.  McClellan  to  place  upon 
that  platform  ONE  WHO  HAS  GONE  FURTHER 
IN  ALL  THREE  OF  THESE  MEASURES  THAN 
HAS  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  HIMSELF.  [Hisses 
and  applause.]  George  B.  McClellan  has  not  con¬ 
tented  himself  with  the  arrest  of  a  citizen  here  and 
there,  and  incarcerating  him  in  a  Bastile,  but  ha3 
arrested  an  entire  Legislature  at  one  order.  HE 
HAS  ALSO  SUSPENDED  THE  WRIT  OF  HABEAS 
CORPUS  of  which  you  have  complained.  He  has 
acquiesced  in  the  emancipation  proclamation  of 
which  you  have  complained  of  Mr.  Lincoln  ;  and 
yet  you  propose,  in  the  very  face  of  the  denuncia¬ 
tions  you  have  heaped  upon  the  head  of  Mr.  Lin¬ 
coln,  to  stultify  yourselves  by  taking  up  a  man  who 
has  been  a  supple  instrument  of  Mr.  Lincoln  for 
carrying  dut  the  very  acts  you  denounce. 

Then,  gentlemen,  is  this  what  the  people  are  to 
expect  from  a  democratic  convention.  [Voices, 
‘no,  no.’]  I  trust  not.  Give  us  a  candidate  for 
President  —  ANY  ONE  EXCEPT  GEORGE  B. 

McClellan  — any  man,  i  care  not  who 

HE  IS  —  [applause  and  hisses] — ANY  ONE  WHOSE 
HANDS  ARE  CLEAN,  whose  skirts  &re  clear,— any 
one  who  has  not  been  instrumental  in  making  ar¬ 
bitrary  arrests  ;  in  violating  the  .  freedom  of  elec¬ 
tions  and  the  rights  citizens  in  every  possible  manner 
in  which  he  could  carry  out  the  wishes  of  Abraham 
Lincoln. 

“  In  conclusion,  I  beg  of  yon  not  to  nominate 
McClellan.  Having  laid  upon  the  table  the  time 
honored  principles  of  the  democratic  party,  as 
expressed  in  the  resolution  o(  1798-99— having 
ignored  them  by  laying  the  resolution  on  the 
table  -  and  WEAK  AS  YOUR  PLATFORM  IS, 
looking  in  some  degree  to  peace,  as  It  does,  in 
God's  name  don’t  place  upon  it  a  man  WHO  IS 
PLEDGED  TO  EVERY  ACT  AGAINST  WHICH 
YOUR  PLATFORM  DECLARES. 

SPEECHES  OUTSIDE  THE  CONVENTION. 

Mr.  Mahoney,  a  northern  rebel, recommends 
rebellion,  and  says:  “WE  MUST  GOTO 
THE  SOUTH,  IF  SHE  WILL  NOT  COME 
TO  US.” 

Mr.  Mahoney,  of  IoWa,  having  lately  rep¬ 
resented  that  State  in  the  Old  Capitol  Prison, 
was  now  introduced  : 

“  When  rulers  aggressed  on  popular  rights  he 
saw  the  remedy  in  opposing  force  to  usurpation— 
the  people  themselves  to  he  judge  of  the  occasion, 
time  and  manner  of  its  application.  He  was  in 
favor  of  peace ;  but  few  democrats  had  the  courage 
to  so  declare  themselves.  The  war  affected  all 
classes  of  people  injuriously,  except  capitalists 
and  placemen.  He  would  have  peace  by  all 


mean3.  If  the  South  would  not  come  to  us  for 
peace,  we  should  go  to  the  South.  We  should 
not  he  discouraged  by  denials  and  failures ;  the 
constitution  of  the  United  States  was  not  an 
made  at  once.  It  had  been  amended  in  twelve 
particulars.  He  WOULD  STILL  FURTHER 
AMEND  it,  to  re-establish  peace  and  union  in 
permanency  He  had  enjoyed  three  months  reflec¬ 
tion  on  these  thingB  under  the  heel  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  and  he  would  have  all  join  him  in  the 
unswerving  resolve  to  submit  to  no  new  en¬ 
croachments  of  tyranny.” 

Mr.  Snow,  of  W ashington  City  : 

“  He,  (Mr.  S.)  predicted  that,  in  view  of  the 
action  of  this  convention,  Lincoln  wou'd  in¬ 
stantly  become  a  peace  man,  to  enable  him  to 
withdraw  the  armies  from  the  field  and  employ 
them  at  the  polls.’’ 

Hon.  Mr.  Early,  of  Nebraska: 

“  He  invoked  his  countrymen  of  the  green 
island  to  use  their  power  in  this  government, 
and  the  shillaldh,  if  necessary,  against  any  in¬ 
vasion  oi  the  freedom  of  the  ballot  box.’’ 

WEDNESDAY,  August  81.  ) 

IN  CONVENTION.  f 

A  PLAN  TO  ASSEMBLE  THE  DEMOCRACY  FOR  THE- 

“  FREE  FIGHT,”  OR  NORTHERN  REBELLION. 

Gov.  Wiekliffe,  leader  of  the  rebel  wing 
of  the  Kentucky  copperheads— the  largest 
slaveholder  in  Kentucky,  and  having  three 
sons  in  the-  rebel  army,  said  : 

“  The  delegations  from  the  West,  including  that 
State  to  which  I  am  attached,  are  of  opinion  that 
circumstances  may  occur  between  this  and  the  fourth 
of  March,  that  will  make  it  necessary  for  the  great 
mass  of  the  democracy  of  this  country  to  be  reas¬ 
sembled.  To  get  up  a  new  convention  is  a  work  of 
delay  and  much  difficulty — and  my  object  is.  that 
the  dissolution  of  this  convention  shall  not  be  affected 
by  its  adjournment,  after  it  finishes  its  labors  to-day, 
but  to  leave  it  to  the  Executive  Committee,  and  at 
the  instance  of  the  democracy,  if  any  occasion  shall 
require,  to  convene  us  at  such  time  and  place  that 
the  Executive  National  Committee  shall  designate. 

Resolved,  That  the  convention  shall  not  be  dis¬ 
solved  by  the  adjournment  at  the  close  of  its  busi¬ 
ness,  but  shall  remain  as  organized,  subject  to  be 
called  together  at  any  time  and  place  that  the  Execu¬ 
tive  National  Committee  shall  designate. 

Which  resolution  was  received  with  much  applause 
and  carried  unanimously.” 

The  Convention  having  nominated  McClel¬ 
lan,  Clement  L.  Vallandigham  moved  to 
make  the  nomination  unanimous.  He  was 
seconded  by  John  McKean,  of  New  York, 
who  gave  notice  that  there  was  danger  of  a 
“revolution,  a  bloody  revolution,”  which  of 
course,  would  be  averted  if  the  copperheads 
should  be  allowed  their  own  way.  The 
threat  sounded  like  those  we  heard  from 
the  present  rebels  in  the  canvass  of  1860. 

Pendleton,  of  Ohio,  having  been  nom¬ 
inated  for  Vice  President,  we  will  let  him 
describe  his  own  position  in  relation  to  the 
rebels.  He  made  a  speech  in  Congress  on 
the  18th  of  January,  1861.  He  afterwards 
carefully  revised  it,  and  had  it  published  in 
the  Appendix  to  the  Globe.  We  quote  from 
it  the  following  passages  : 

“  My  voice  to-day  is  for  conciliation  ;  my  voice  is  for 
compromise,  and  it  is  but  the  echo  of  the  voice  of  my 
constituents.  I  beg  you,  gentlemen,  who  with  me  rep- 


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resent  the  Northwest ;  you  who,  with  me,  represent  j 
the  State  of  Ohio ;  you  who  with  me,  represent  the  city 
of  Cincinnati,  I  beg  you,  gentlemen,  to  hear  that 
voice.  If  you  will  not;  IF  YOU  FIND  CONCILI¬ 
ATION  IMPOSSIBLE;  IF  YOUR  DIFFERENCES 
ARE  SO  GREAT  THAT  YOU  CANNOT  OR  WILL 
NOT  RECONCILE  THEM,  THEN,  GENTLEMEN, 
LET  THE  SECEDING  STATES  DEPART  IN 
PEACE  ;  LET  THEM  ESTABLISH  THEIR  GOV¬ 
ERNMENT  AND  EMPIRE,  AND  WORK  OUT 
THEIR  DESTINY  ACCORDING  TO  THE  WISDOM 
WHICH  GOD  HAS  GIVEN  THEM.” 

THE  ESSENCE  OF  DEMOCRACY. 


brother.”  Emulate  her  example.  Roll  on  the  car 
of  peace  and  stand  to  your  guns  ready  for  the  emer- 
gency  which  events  may  force  upon  you  for  this  deci¬ 
sion.  Be  ever  true  to  the  faith  of  the  fathers  and  you 
j  will  triumph. 

No  more  arbitrary  arrests  will  be  permitted  with 
impunity.  No  more  Vallandighams  will  be  dragged 
from  the  bosom  of  their  families,  and  spirited  away 
to  a  foreign  land  or  a  dungeon,  unless  the  attempt 
|  costs  blood. 

'  '  .  '-at 

STRIKING  PARALLEL — HORATIO  SEYMOUR,  BEN¬ 
EDICT  ARNOLD  AND  THE  CHICAGO  PLAT- 


The  following  are  specimen  chips  of  the 
speechifying  “  hove  in  ”  at  the  ratification 
meeting  held  on  Wednesday: 

Mr.  Sanderson  said : 

“  If  Abe  Lincoln  was  re-elected,  he  would  free  the 
negroes  of  the  South  and  then  enslave  the  people. 
We  must  maintain  STATE  RIGHTS.” 

Mr.  Rollins,  of  Missouri,  said : 

“  I  lovb  our  Southern  friends.  They  are  a  noble, 
a  brave  and  chivalrous  people,  although  they  are 
trying  to  break  up  the  Government.” 

Mr  Hanna,  of  Indiana,  was  heavy  on  Ben 
Butler  and  poured  over  his  devoted  head 
such  venomous  slitne  as  this: 

“By  whom  was  Lincoln  supported?  Prominent 
among  his  supporters  is  Butler,  half  devil,  one-quarter 
beast,  and  less  than  one  fourth  human,  begot  en  by 
the  Prince  of  Hell,  spewed  from  the  rotten  womb  of 
crime,  and  thrown  into  the  lap  of  civilization,  a  de¬ 
formed,  unfinished  wretch.  He  was  sent  before  his 
time  into  this  breathing  world,  less  than  half  made 
up,  and  is  so  hateful  looking  that  the  dogs  bark  at 
him  as  he  passes  by.” 

“  By  G — d  we  must  have  McClellan  nominated. 
We  must  put  a  stop  to  this  d — d  war.” — Dean  Rich¬ 
mond  of  New  York. 

“  Let  us  hurl  that  usurper  from  power.  Never  till 
that  day  comes  when  the  usurper  and  his  victim  meet 
at  the  judgment  seat  can  he  be  punished  for  his 
wrongs,  for  his  conspiracy  against  American  liberty.” 
— Baker ,  of  Michigan. 

“  I  advise  peace  and  harmony,  but  if  in  the  strug 
gle  it  reaches  the  point  that  the  ballot  box  is  ever 
touched  with  sacrilegious  hands,  I  say,  then  and 
there,  come  what  will,  let  the  lives  and  honor  of  all 
be  pledged  to  the  biggest  fight  the  world  ever  saw.” — 
Bishop ,  of  Michigan. 

“  What  is  this  war  for?  The  nigger.  It  is  for  the 
nigger  against  the  white  man.  I  thiok  we  don’t  want 
our  bosoms  stuffed  so  much  with  damned  niggers  this 
warm  weather.  I  don’t  believe  the  negro  is  .equal  to 
the  white  man.  Is  it  nut  high  time  that  this  infernal 
war  was  stopped?  If  the  South  could  be  subjugated 
by  this  infernal  war,  the  bayonets  would  be  turned 
against  the  North.  Come  weal  or  woe,  we  will  be  for 
the  sovereignty  of  the  States  and  individual  rights.” 
— Mr.  Bander  son ,  of  Pa. 

A  SHRIEK  FOR  A  DISUNION  PEACE. 

Hon.  Henry  Warren,  chairman  of  the 
State  Committee  of  Rhode  Island,  after  de¬ 
nouncing  the  ruinous  reign  of  the  “  Black 
Republican  tyrant,”  said : 

Little  Rhode  Island,  carried  away  by  the  impulse  of 
the  moment,  did  once  lend  herself  to  the  mad  prcject 
of  this  Abolition  war ;  but  she  now  sheathes  the  sword 
and  cries,  “War  is  murder  — I  will  not  kill  my 


FORM. 

From  Horatio  Sey¬ 
mour's  Speech  at  Chi¬ 
cago. 

The  bigotry  of  fanat¬ 
icism  and  intrigues  uf 
place-men  have  made  the 
bloody  pages  of  the  his¬ 
tory  of  the  past  three 
years.  The  guaranteed 
rights  of  the  people  to 
bear  arms  has  been  sus¬ 
pended  up  to  the  very 
borders  of  Canada;  so 
that  American  servitude 
is  put .  in  bold  contrast 
with  British  liberty.  Mr. 
Lincoln  thinks  a  procla¬ 
mation  worth  more  than 
I  peace  ;  we  think  the 
blood  of  our  people  more 
precious  than  the  edicts 
of  the  President. 

Four  years  ago  a  Con¬ 
vention  met  in  this  city, 
when  our  country  was 
peaceful,  prosperous  and 
happy.  *  *  *  Had 

wise  statesmanship  se¬ 
cured  the  fruits  of  victo¬ 
ries,  fo-day  there  would 
have  been  peace  in  our 
land. 

The  democratic  party 
will  put  down  despotism, 

I  because  it  hates  the  igno- 
!  ble  tyranny  which  trow 
degra  les  the  American 
people. 

■  From  the  Chicago  Plat- 
j  jorm. 

Resolved ,  That  this 
Convention  does  explicit¬ 
ly  declare,  as  the  sense 
of  the  American  people, 
that,  after  four  years  of 
failure  to  restore  the  Un¬ 
ion  by  the  experiment  of 
war,  during  which,  under 
the  pretense  of  a  military 
necessity  or  war  power 
higher  than  the  Consti¬ 
tution,  the  Constitution 
itself  has  been  disre¬ 
garded  in  every  part,  and 
public  liberty  and  private 
right  alike  trodden  down, 
and  the  material  pros¬ 
perity  of  the  country  es¬ 
sentially  impaired,  jus¬ 
tice,  humanity,  liberty, 
and  the  public  welfare, 
demand  that  immediate 
efforts  be  made  for  a  ces¬ 
sation  of  hostilities,  etc. 


From  Benedict  Ar¬ 
nold's  Proclamation 
to  the  Cit'zens  and 
Soldiers  of  the  United 
States,  issued  October 
24,  1780. 

You  are  promised  lib¬ 
erty  by  the  leaders  of 
your  affairs,  but  is  there 
an  individual  in  the  en¬ 
joyment  of  it,  saving 
your  oppressors  ?  Who 
among  you  dare  to  speak 
or  write  what  he  thinks 
against  the  tyranny 
wrhioh  has  robbed  you  of 
your  property,  imprisons 
your  sons,  drags  you  to 
the  field  of  battle,  and  is 
deluging  your  country 
with  blood  ? 

Our  country  once  was 
happy,  and  had  the  prof¬ 
fered  peace  been  embrac¬ 
ed,  the  last  two  years  of 
misery  had  been  spent  in 
peace  and  plenty,  and 
repairing  the  desolation 
of  the  quarrel  that  would 
have  set  the  interest  of 
Great  Britain  and  Amer- 
ca  in  a  true  light,  and  ce¬ 
mented  their  friendship. 

I  wish  to  lead  a  chosen 
band  of  Americ  ms  to  the 
attainment  ot  peace,  lib¬ 
erty  and  safety,  the  first 
objects  in  takin ;  the  field. 

What  is  America  but  a 
land  of  widows,  orphans 
and  beggars?  But  what 
need  of  argument  to  such 
as  feel  infinitely  more 
misery  than  tongue  can 
express?  I  give  my 
promise  of  most  affection¬ 
ate  welcome  to  all  who 
are  disp*  sed  to  join  me 
in  measures  necessary  to 
close  the  scene  of  our  af¬ 
fliction,  whica  must  be 
increased  until  we  are 
content  with  ihe  liberality 
of  the  parent  country, 
which  still  offers  us  pro¬ 
tection  and  perpetual  ex¬ 
emption  from  all  taxes 
but  such  as  we  shall  think 
fit  to  impose  upon  our¬ 
selves. 

BKWKDICT  \RNOLD. 


